Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation is located in South Dakota and occupies 3.469 square miles, larger
than Deleware for a population of 32,152. It has 84,000 acres of arable land
and income from produce of $33 million. There is a uranium mine south of the
reservation that is attempting to resume operation.
But the Oglala Sioux Tribe, which is
headquartered on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, claims the
license was improperly issued without an adequate survey of tribal cultural
resources as required by the National Environmental Policy Act.
In 1975, FBI Agents
were attempting to serve a Warrant in the Reservation and 2 FBI agents were
killed. Leonard Pelitier was arrested and convicted of killing the agents and
has been serving two life-sentences in prison since 1977. His conviction has
been challenged by Amnesty International, but has been ignored. Pelitier was an American Indian political
activist.
Indian Reservations
are the laboratories we should study to convince us that we don’t want to
become dependent on government welfare and control. It’s a third-world country
hiding inside the US. Non-assimilation is the rule for Indian Reservations.
Comments
If the government
asked me if I wanted to live on an Irish Reservation, where I could spend my
time conversing in Galic, playing Irish music and doing Irish dances in
exchange for a life of poverty, I would laugh at them.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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