A rare win in Indian Country: How tribes drove out a mining company in one week
Two Oglala Lakota scouts discovered that a mining company was preparing to drill on Pe'Sla, a sacred site in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The tribes mobilized to stop the operation. Within a week, they succeeded in driving the mining company out of the area. The effort represents an unusual victory for tribal sovereignty over industrial development on lands significant to Native Americans.
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