Uranium Mining In The Black Hills – Debra White Plume’s Response to ‘Clean Nuclear’

by Debra White Plume, Feb 2010

The planned uranium mine site in the southern Black Hills can impact four aquifers. Powertech, Inc. USA plans to begin uranium extraction in 2011 and operate for 15 years in the permit area of 10,580 acres located in Dewey and Burdock Counties, north of Edgemont, SD. PT plans to [...]

Massive Sioux Indian Reservation Battles Snow with 3 Ploughs

By Denis Campbell
As we have seen in the blizzards in Washington and New York 100s of crews of snowploughs and front-end loaders work feverishly to open roads, airports and railway tracks. But, what if you lived in the Cheyenne Sioux Indian Reservation of South Dakota and there were only three snowploughs to clear an area [...]

Russell Means, A Portrait

Title: Russell Means
Lakota Name: Oyate Wacinyapi “Works for the people”
Artist: Bob Coronato
Size: 36 5/8 x 74 1/4 – Oil on Canvas
“An upside down flag is an international signal of distress… now we, the Indian nations, are in distress. I will wear this flag upside down as long as my people are in distress!” R. Means
I [...]

Victory for Black Mesa – Judge Pulls Peabody Coal Permit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 8, 2010
Department of Interior Judge Withdraws Peabody’s Coal-Mining Permit on Black Mesa Reverses 11th Hour Bush Administration Decision
Black Mesa, AZ – A Department of Interior Administrative Law Judge withdrew Peabody Coal Company’s Life of Mine permit for operations on Black Mesa, AZ, handing a major victory to tribal and environmental organizations who appealed the permit decision in [...]

Variety review of Palestine, New Mexico

Palestine, New Mexico

(Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles; 724 seats; $65 top)
By BOB VERINI

A Center Theater Group presentation for Culture Clash of a play in one act by Richard Montoya. Directed by Lisa Peterson. Sets, Rachel Hauck; costumes, Christopher Acebo; lighting and projections, Alexander V. Nichols; original music and sound, Paul James Prendergast; production stage manager, [...]

The United States Continues to Steal Land from Indians

BILL MEANS
With all due respect to Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in a recently settled lawsuit over American Indian trust funds (“U.S. to pay Indians $3.4B,” Dec. 9), I think the United States is continuing a policy of “Indians are not humans.”
During the course of this long-running, class-action litigation, it has been documented that the United [...]

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