Shoot-Out at Slim Buttes

May 31, 2007 – Blue Moon SHOTS FIRED AT THE SLIM BUTTES OCCUPATION CAMP!!! Wado for your ongoing support and concern! Harold J. One Feather is fighting for the survival of his people. Uranium mining has devastated many communities from Standing Rock, to other Cheyenne River Lakota communities. Runoff from the uranium mining has seeped and is seeping into the soil, encroaching on these people, causing many premature deaths, and reproductive problems with the women. Mission of the Grand River Environmental Equality Network Occupation Camp: Gonna Stay until the Dogs Catch Their Own Tail 1. To demand the comprehensive and total clean up of abandoned uranium mines with the Slim Buttes and Cave Hills, and not just one at a time as the US Forest Service is stating it is doing. 2. To consider the negative health effects of low-dose ionizing radiation exposure through surface water, ground water and air transport; especially as this has been occurring to my community Rock Creek (Bullhead, SD). We feel that the US Forest Service's negligence of considering the Rock Creek communities concern that the uranium mines are causing extreme health crises within the community is tantamount to genocide and racism. 3. To revise the US Forest Service Sioux Oil and Gas Leasing Final Environmental Impact Statement to either start an Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement or start the EIS process anew to include tribal communities' extreme health concerns. This is our main point that the US Forest Service although hearing testimony from Rock Creek community members about their increasing rates of cancer, birth problems, and diabetes, they didn't include this in the FEIS and replied that the commenting period is over. They were told numerous times about what the sickness and deaths happening downstream, yet they purposefully ignore our concerns. This too is genocide and racism! 4. We demand that all current leases involving uranium, oil, gas as well as other mineral resources be outlawed in the Slim Buttes and Cave Hills and those existing outstanding leases be allowed to expire without renewal of these leases. 5. We demand that the name of the Custer National Forest be changed to Crazy Horse National Forest; this is upon the advice of the story told to LaDonna Brave Bull-Allard by Johnson Holy Rock and Elaine Quiver: that the Slim Buttes and Cave Hills was one of Crazy Horse's favorite places and is part of the Powder River basin that as a condition of his surrender would be his permanent reservation. For this he was murdered at Fort Robinson. 6. We demand that the Sioux Ranger District be renamed Paha Zizipila as this is its true Lakota name. Lakota Anti-Nuke Fighter Served with Eviction Notice Here is a transcribed version of the notice of eviction that he received: Hello I was here at approximately 12:40 on 5/22. Please know there is a 10-day camping limit. This campsite was observed to be in use 5/16. “It” must be gone by 5/26. If you have questions please call me at (605) 797-4432. Laurie Walters-Clark Here is a radio interview of Harold James One Feather by a radio station on the Rosebud Reservation: Rez King scroll down to the bottom of the page to listen to our interview about uranium contamination on the reservations...Thanks Richard Iyotte mode, you are the man!!! Location of Grand River Environmental Equality Network Occupation Camp