Harold Frazier, chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) and the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association (GPTCA), emailed Tom Vilsack, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday, July 15, requesting the immediate withdrawal of gold mining permits issued on sacred Black Hills land.
The email - acquired by the Timber Lake Topic - follows a July...
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