Thursday, 14 May 2020

"Get the hell off": The Indigenous fight to stop a uranium mine in the Black Hills

"Get the hell off": The Indigenous fight to stop a uranium mine in the Black Hills

Regina Brave remembers the moment the first viral picture of her was taken. It was 1973, and 32-year-old Brave had taken up arms in a standoff between federal marshals and militant Indigenous activists in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Brave had been assigned to guard a bunker on the front lines and was holding a rifle when a reporter leaped from a car to snap her photo.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/the-black-hills-are-not-for-sale/?source=Snapzu

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