Add your name to protect sacred site Pe’Sla: 

THE PROBLEM: SACRED INDIGENOUS LAND AND RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK.

In the sacred He Sápa, known in English as the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Lakota sacred site known as Pe’ Sla (“pay-SHLAH”) is currently under attack by mining activity.

The U.S. Forest Service is doing everything it can to force through a graphite drilling project, proposed by Pete Lien & Sons, a mining company based in Rapid City, SD. This project is the exact equivalent of mining inside the Vatican or at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

What Pete Lien and USFS are attempting to do would be a direct violation of treaty rights via the Constitutional Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868). This project is a massive risk to the Rapid Creek watershed, a critical drinking water source for Rapid City, Ellsworth Air Force Base, and multiple Indian Reservations. If this project is approved, this tactic will be used across sacred sites and protected waterways everywhere.

What’s at stake around Pe’ Sla is not just the human rights of Indigenous Peoples, but the religious freedom and the environmental safety and health of everyone in the United States. 

Please click the button below to read the full petition and sign.

Thank you, NDN COLLECTIVE, for creating this petition.