Defenders of the Black Hills
Schedule of Events
Fri. & Sat. - June 26 & 27, 2009
Mother Earth Spiritual Run
Sponsored by 1st Nations United
Camping at Bear Butte on June 26th
Sturgis, SD
For info: 952-974-3257
PowerTech's Dewey-Burdock Application Not AcceptableNotice from Sarah Fields - Uranium Watch
This morning, June 11, the NRC staff met with PowerTech and their lawyers regarding the inadequacies of PowerTech's application for the Dewey-Burdock Project. At the end of the meeting, the NRC staff's conclusion was that the application was not complete and PT should either withdraw the application or the NRC would send them a letter stating that it did not meet their acceptance criteria. PT said that they would send a letter within two weeks. They still intend to pursue the project, but need to present a more complete application. EPA Region 8 and South Dakota agency were listening in.
Press ReleaseTituwan Oyate
Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council 1315 E. St. Charles St., Rapid City SD 57701 Press Release June 1, 2009 New York City, NY -- A delegation from the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council (TSNTC) flew out of New York City on May 30, 2009, after attending a two-week session at the United Nations. The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues was in session. The delegation included Spokesperson Charmaine White Face, Janice Larson from Lower Brule, Clifford White Eyes Sr. from Rosebud, and Garvard Good Plume, Pine Ridge.
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"Defenders of the Black Hills is a group of volunteers without racial or tribal boundaries whose mission is to preserve, protect, and restore the environment of the 1851 and 1868 Treaty Territories, Treaties made between the United States and the Great Sioux Nation."
Speaking about radioactive fallout, the late President John F. Kennedy said,
"Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent."
July 26, 1963 upon signing the ban on above ground nuclear tests
"The radiation levels in parts I visited with my students were higher than those in the evacuated zones around the Fukushima Nuclear disaster...." Nuclear Physics Professor Kimberly Kearfott, University of Michigan, in comparing the readings obtained in northwestern South Dakota at the Cave Hills open-pit, abandoned uranium mines.
"It must always be remembered that the various Indian tribes were once independent and sovereign nations, and that their claim to sovereignty long predates that of our own government."
Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice
(McClanahan v. Sate Tax Commission, 1973)