If we’re to shift the trajectory of the #ClimateCrisis and create a better future for the coming generations, we must listen to the age-old wisdom of Indigenous peoples who understand how to live in balance with the #UnciMaka, our #GrandmotherEarth.

Thank you for reading, and please take action to stop mining at #ThackerPass and in the #BlackHills.

20/20

https://lakotalaw.org/news/2023-08-09/mining-without-permission?ms=ea&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mhbt&utm_content=textlink1&sourceid=1059426&contactdata=sucr2%2fc4eQolR7phD4LJxh6EVTp%2fC0fFyCHvJJoxLHQ6C+53tbv%2fnA6eQ4zjz+qwwsGz%2fLL289dYPCC+j8BVX+Z4XerrbPYu7DBRlT7Gi3NSLVzVLjugE8USTfzNwhjtrENBAy7Y2MfLVbPIdH9xBqfVjB9PbV56vtRpZSr1QoMXmQYhJ7eJbHg8aqri8jiy%2fnRyd93GBU6kuWgINg4tD9oS3p9TBl+OK1Iejovb9j0%3d&emci=1010764a-0e37-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&emdi=48cb645b-1437-ee11-a3f1-00224832eb73&ceid=9521138à

But #mining is not a thing of the past. Present day efforts often focus on other valuable #minerals in the #BlackHills region, such as #uranium and rare earth elements essential for various modern technologies — #lithium included. It’s all connected, and it’s hardly an overstatement to say that anywhere you look, extractive industry encroaches on Indigenous homelands. That must change going forward.

19/20

https://bhcleanwateralliance.org/know-the-issue/lithium-rush/

many mines in the Black Hills faced declining production and eventually closed.

But #MiningOperations continue to this day, particularly in areas where modern exploration techniques have revealed new #reserves or where mining methods have become more efficient. Mining in the #BlackHills has had significant environmental impacts, including #deforestation, #SoilErosion, and #WaterPollution, resulting in #conflicts with #NativePeoples who consider the Black Hills to be a sacred site.

16/20

It was one of the deepest and largest #GoldMines in #NorthAmerica, and it operated for over a century, from 1876 to 2002. The #HomestakeMine produced over 40 million ounces of #gold during its lifetime. While gold was the primary focus of early mining in the #BlackHills, other #minerals were also extracted from the region over time, including silver, copper, lead, zinc, tin, mica, and various #gemstones.

As the most accessible and easily extracted deposits were depleted,

15/20

The #BlackHills Gold Rush of the late 19th century was a major event that attracted prospectors and #settlers from all over the country.

In 1874, General George Armstrong #Custer led an expedition consisting of 1,000 soldiers of the seventh cavalry, 110 wagons, 70 Indian scouts, four reporters, and two gold miners to the Black Hills. This led to the discovery of gold — particularly at present-day #Custer and #Deadwood, in the heart of #Lakota territory.

13/20

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/custer-timeline/

that shape the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of projects.

Of course, the U.N. has good reason to make its declaration. The story of #IndigenousOpposition to #extraction isn’t new, and the #Lakota people are no strangers to extractive industry looking to exploit our homelands. From the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline ( #DAPL ) at #StandingRock to mining in the #BlackHills , these violent practices have a storied #history.

12/20

It also impinges on #CeremonialGrounds, the site of two #HistoricMassacres , and the home of several #ProtectedSpecies . As I’ll detail below, it also continues a long history of mining unwanted by #FrontlineNativeCommunities , for example in the #HeSapa — the #BlackHills sacred to the #Lakota people.

As my colleague, Lakota elder #PhyllisYoung, recently wrote in an email to our organization’s supporters, we now stand at a crossroads.

3/20

US and Canada Among Top Violators of #Indigenous Rights: #Mining, Militarization and #BoardingSchools

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 1, 2023

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/us-and-canada-among-top-violators-of.html

#ThackerPass #Mining #BlackHills #EnvironmentalRacism #NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #UN #LithiumMining #RioTinto #HumanRights

#Film #LakotaNationvsTheUnitedStates #Lakota #blackhills #LakotaNation #Indigenous #native #History

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eV9Oeut62vw&feature=share

#BlackHills flood of 1972
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfUEpiouag0

https://awfj.org/cinema-citizen/2023/07/07/lakota-nation-vs-united-states-documentary-review/

#Landback #Justice: aiming to attain #restoration of their complete control over their #territorial #lands. They have consistently refused to accept #payment to #relinquish their #rights to lands they consider to be #sacred. They don’t equate money with justice.

#Ruffalo #BlackHills #documentaryfilm

Uranium and gold mining are tearing up the sacred He Sapa — the Black Hills of South Dakota. Tell U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to suspend all mining claims in the Black Hills until treaty rights to ancestral homelands are respected and restored. Mni wiconi — water is life.

#LakotaLaw
#DebHaaland
#BlackHills
#mining

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/black-hills-mining

I stand with #LakotaLaw in calling for the return of the #BlackHills--the site of #MountRushmore--to its rightful owners, the #GreatSiouxNation.

#LandBack

@ophiocephalic @TheWildHuntNews

Dear Rep. Moron;

The #BlackHills is a sacred site for #NativeAmericans who were granted exclusive rights under the #TreatyOfFortLarami [1].

It was cool until gold was discovered in treaty lands.

Then, #WhiteAmerica decided taking back the land [2] and carving a #Racist, #WhiteSupremecist, monument to the #Confederacy would be better.

[1] Check your #Constitution on where treaties sit in law.
[2] and yet #IndianGiver implies that THEY took the "giving" back.

Sunrise at Sylvan Lake in Custer State Park, South Dakota.

#Fotomontag #photography #BlackHills #LandscapePhotography

Sunrise at Sylvan Lake in Custer State Park, South Dakota.

#Fotomontag #photography #BlackHills #LandscapePhotography

A blizzard is being forecast for Monday afternoon through Wednesday.
#BlackHills #SouthDakota #winterstorm

Abandoned car along the Mickelson Trail in the Black HIlls south of Custer South Dakota.
#biking #abandoned #blackhills

This is a good deal, if it goes through.

There is an ill-considered profit-motive proposal for a massive gold exploration project just north of Pactola dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota that could be disastrous for public recreation, household wells, and endangered wildlife.

https://www.sdstandardnow.com/home/encouraging-news-forest-service-proposes-a-2-year-moratorium-on-new-mining-claims-around-pactolarapid-creek-watershed

#SouthDakota #BlackHills #GoldMining

#SilentSunday #photography #BlackHills #sd #SouthDakota