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Black Hills resource harvesting and the rape of sacred Lakota lands is just 'Business as Usual' By Samuel Vargo

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Lakota leaders involved with treaty councils, treaty laws and their interpretations and implementations discuss how the sacred lands of the Black Hills have been raped by Big Oil & Gas and mining companies. Some Lakota activists who have been long associated with fighting against pipeline installation, mining, fracking, and drilling for natural resources, rich and plentiful in the Black Hills, also chime in here on this article from 'Daily Kos'. "The Black Hills Are Not For Sale," these Lakota leaders agree, and they never have been. Rich and heavily endowed with minerals and other natural resources, the South Dakota Black Hills are being raped by a corporate invading elite.

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Samuel Vargo worked as a full-time reporter and editor for more than 20 years at a number of daily newspapers and business journals. He was also an adjunct English professor at colleges and universities in Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi (more...)

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