Uranium Project Hearing Adjourned!

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Today is historical because it's the first time in the history of America that our language was allowed to be heard in any court hearing or public hearing of any kind. So, it's a historical thing. It's a victory that we all want caused by the youth of our generation.

[00:00:16]>> So, what exactly is happening at Craraven Canyon? We have another group of people from Canada, thousands of miles away from their homeland, coming here to dig uranium in our area to destroy our water and ruin us. It doesn't affect them in any way because they're way away from their home. So, we got to keep these foreigners off our sacred Black Hills. The Black Hills treaty has been abregated and it has never been solved. It's still an open case and the treaty is a law that was made by Congress, approved by president, signed. It's a legal document that hasn't been solved yet.

[00:00:53]>> There are 256,000 acres of the Black Hills that are under active mining claims. Any one of those claims could become a mine under US federal law.

[00:01:05]>> In Lakota, the word for uranium is called makisa.

[00:01:09]Makisita. Everybody should know that.

[00:01:12]word maki is to take away sitta the yellow mist that takes away it used to be above the world at one time and nothing could live and today they're digging trying to bring that above the ground again so it's awful to think that way the people who do that are people without a culture without a heritage without a history >> so we just serve the board minerals of environment a federal lawsuit today can you kind of explain a little more about what that was about and why they did that.

[00:01:43]>> I know the basic issue is uh civil rights violations uh natural rights violations uh around the um the behavior that the board has had against indigenous people this week.

[00:01:57]>> What are the next steps for this fight?

[00:02:00]>> Um that's very unclear at this point. Um it depends on what the uh legal situation ends up being and how that impacts the board of minerals and environment's actions. So it could be anything from they reschedule the hearing in a month or something or it could be that they give up entirely in terms of trying to uh oversee a process that has a federal lawsuit against it.

[00:02:26]Or it could be that the company gets frustrated and goes away. My generation's been fighting uranium for over 50 years and we're getting old.

[00:02:38]>> That's true.

[00:02:39]>> I've been sitting here thinking about how glad I am to see so many young people be trusted.

[00:02:43]>> That's what I wanted to say.

[00:02:46]Poke ahead to the next generation.