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Protect Bear Butte Website www.protectbearbutte.com Updates, Action Alerts http://bearbutte.blogspot.com/ Video Archive Bear Butte Videos Chronology for Bear Butte Lesson Plan 2: SACRED GROUND OR FEDERAL LAND? A Conflict Resolution Role-Play http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/inthelightofreverence/lesson2.pdf. Fort Laramie Treaties 1851 & 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties U.S. Supreme Court
News Articles
Saving sacred site Bear Butte issue more critical than ever
May 9, 2008
Native Times - USA
Bear Butte is a sacred mountain located eight miles west of Sturgis, South
Dakota. It is registered as a National Historical Landmark. Bear Butte is sacred
...
Meade County faces decision on County Line rally venue
April 21, 2008
Rapid City Journal - Rapid
City,SD,USA
That troubles some critics of County Line, including Bear Butte area
resident Tamra Brennan, founder of Protect Sacred Sites as Indigenous
People, ...
Bear Butte Bar Has New Owner April
18, 2008
KELOLAND TV - Sioux
Falls,SD,USA
A circuit judge has approved an ownership change for the County Line Bar, an
establishment north of Bear Butte that has been the focus of protests by ...
'Cheyenne and Arapaho Revisited' at Denver March
Indian Country Today, NY -
Bear Butte, a mountain near Sturgis, SD, on the
periphery of the Black Hills, was the topic of a presentation by Mann and her
daughter, Montoya Whiteman,
Bear Butte speaker to be at Wesleyan
Daily Republic, SD -
Her topic is the sacred nature of Bear Butte and
the ongoing efforts to protect it. White Face is the founder and coordinator of
Defenders of the Black
Indian Law Resource Center fights for indigenous rights
Indian Country Today, NY -
She gave examples of people still fighting for
their own land rights from the tribes fighting against the encroachment of
developers around Bear Butte in
Governor gets much of what he wanted
Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD -
HB1275 - Appropriates $250000 general funds to
match federal and other funds for easements near Bear Butte State Park. Killed
in House
2007 Articles:
Protest organizers plan smaller Bear
Butte presence
August 13, 2007
Indian Country Today -
Canastota,NY,USA
There's a gathering planned in Rapid City and an
encampment at the base of Bear Butte on land owned by
the Northern Cheyenne Tribe along Highway 79, ...
Group to pray at Bear Butte during
rally
July 27, 2007
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux
Falls,SD,USA
By AP STURGIS - An American Indian group plans to hold a
spiritual encampment at the base of Bear Butte during
the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally next month. ...
Broken Spoke owner leaves unpaid bills June 6,
2007
Rapid City
Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
STURGIS - Broken Spoke Saloon owner Jay Allen, who built the controversial
Sturgis County Line rally venue north of Bear Butte last year, ...
Most Bear Butte Alcohol Licenses Renewed
June 6, 2007
KELOLAND TV - Sioux
Falls,SD,USA
Alcohol licenses for several businesses that operate between Sturgis and
Bear Butte have been renewed by the Meade County Commission.
Killsback: Protecting Noavose
May 4, 2007
Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA
''Protecting our sacred sites
shows the Cheyenne peoples' inherent cultural
sovereignty,'' Killsback said. ''Noavose is the Mount
Sinai of the Cheyenne
Sturgis students
study Bear Butte controversy
March 3, 2007
Rapid City
Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
On Wednesday, students in Kerry
Skinner’s seventh-grade class took a
project concerning the Bear Butte
buffer zone controversy to a
competition in Pierre
Senate kills Bear Butte zoning bill January 30, 2007
Rapid City Journal, SD
Tom Katus, D-Rapid City, sponsored the bill,
saying it was in response to protests about bars and concert venues encroaching
on Bear Butte during the
Bear Butte liquor license dispute headed for state Supreme Court
January 28, 2007
Indian Country Today, NY
The battle to stop owners from opening huge biker
bar venues within sight and sound of Bear Butte grew this past summer and
challenges the Meade County
Kempthorne,
American Indian leaders meet
August 8, 2006
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- USA
RAPID CITY, SD -- Tribal leaders from five of
South Dakota's American Indian reservations met
with Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on
Sunday to discuss ...
For
Sacred Indian Site, New Neighbors Are Far From
Welcome (This
was on the FRONTPAGE of
the NY Times!)
New York Times, United States -
... of tribes hold as one of the most sacred
sites in ... Nearby Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation was the site of the ... The Sioux
call it an emergence site, where their
Indians Confront Sturgis Bikers
Yankton Daily
Press, SD -
... Motorcycle Rally. The native people are
protesting entertainment venues and other sites
being developed east of town near Bear Butte.
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