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
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