Black Hills

Emergency Court Action Sought As Drilling Begins In Sacred Black Hills

May 4, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Resist! Black Hills, Indigenous Activism, Legal System, Mining, Sacred Site

Tribal advocates have asked a federal court to immediately halt a graphite drilling project at Pe’ Sla, a site sacred to the Lakota and other Indigenous nations, warning that ongoing activity risks irreparable cultural and environmental harm. Plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service filed motions this week seeking an emergency temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction after learning that drilling has already begun within the contested area. The filings, submitted in U.S. District Court in South Dakota, argue that at least two active drill pads are operating at Pe’ Sla, a site long used for ceremony, prayer and cultural practices.

Oglala Sioux Tribe Wins Legal Case Against Powertech Uranium Mine

September 11, 2024 Black Hills Clean Water Alliance. Resist! Black Hills, Indigenous Rights, Oglala Sioux, Uranium mining, Victory

Powertech (now a subsidiary of enCore Energy) planned to start mining uranium in the southwestern Black Hills in 2009. Thanks to the Oglala Sioux Tribe, the BHCWA and its allies, and you — they are not mining and its 2024. And this decision means that they won’t be anytime soon. In the Press-Release open from the Oglala Sioux Tribe they state: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) has ruled in favor of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in a case involving a proposed uranium mine in Fall River and Custer Counties, South Dakota. The EAB sent the EPA’s Underground Injection Control (UIC) permits for the proposed Powertech Dewey-Burdock uranium mine, owned by parent company enCore Energy, back to EPA Region 8 (located in Denver, CO) to reconsider the permitting decision.

Tribes And Water Protectors Ward Off New Black Hills Gold Rush

July 24, 2022 Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project. Resist! Black Hills, Gold Mining, Indigenous Rights, Sacred sites, Water Protectors

Native nations and citizen watchdogs were prepared to take action against the permitting, because this is not the first time the federal agency has moved to allow the renewal of large-scale mining at these headwaters of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Four toxic Superfund sites are the result of water pollution from the mining over the past 70 years. Two generations of Lakota and settler descendants have worked across and through cultural differences to prevent any more of the same. Taxpayers already are footing the bill for the cleanup of hazardous heavy metals used in modern mining: cyanide, arsenic, chromium III and VI, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, thallium, and zinc. About $100 million of public money has been spent on runoff at just one of the sites, which generates approximately 95 million gallons of poisonous acid rock drainage a year.

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