- BLACK HILLS
- Charmaine White Face is an Oglala Tetuwan (Lakota language speaker) from the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) in North America.
- She is known for her work in support of Native American rights, in particular as coordinator of the Defenders of the Black Hills volunteer organization centered around efforts to encourage the United States government to honor the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868. She also works at the international level in support of recognition of human rights of indigenous peoples all over the world. She is the spokesperson for the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council to the UN.. She was a participant in the prayer fast/hunger strike held in December 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland at the final meeting of the Intersessional Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (WGDD). She is also a writer and a grandmother.
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Uranium mining and nuclear pollution in the Upper mid west
BLACK HILLS
Riley Pass Abandoned Uranium Mine
This is a video of the Riley Pass Abandoned Uranium Mine on the North Cave Hills Unit, Custer National Forest taken by Harold J. One Feather.
As this abandoned uranium mine is highly radioactive, please don't visit this site with any children and if you must see for yourself; take proper precautions such as using breathing filters to keep from breathing the dust and stay upwind to keep from breathing radon and other radioactive dust!
