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A rare win in Indian Country: How tribes drove out a mining company in one week

A rare win in Indian Country: How tribes drove out a mining company in one week
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When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the sacred prairie in the Black Hills of South Dakota, they set out on back trails. They needed to find out where. That’s when they saw a deer break ahead, and a red-tailed hawk soar above them — less like coincidence...

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