Latest Stories: Buffalo Nation - Native Americans in Pine Ridge: lakota17

A scene of nearly dried out vegetation at an allegedly radioactive-material contaminated watershed of the Cheyenne River in the south-western part of Black Hill, a holy place of the Lakota, where a large number of abandoned uranium wells as well as mines exist. Although the authorities deny the danger of the materials, the advocates insist that uranium materials flow through the underground-water into even the Pine Ridge reservations and other parts of South Dakota.

A scene of nearly dried out vegetation at an allegedly radioactive-material contaminated watershed of the Cheyenne River in the south-western part of Black Hill, a holy place of the Lakota, where a large number of abandoned uranium wells as well as mines exist. Although the authorities deny the danger of the materials, the advocates insist that uranium materials flow through the underground-water into even the Pine Ridge reservations and other parts of South Dakota.