Indian activist Russell Means died earlier today.  Below is a link to hear his address to the 2012 Dakota Conference on Wounded Knee 1973.

AN EXCERPT:

Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Saturday, July 28, 2012

In February of 1973, Oglala Lakota Indians and members of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. For the next few months hostilities ensued, resulting in both Native American and U.S. officials’ deaths. Russell Means, an Oglala Sioux activist, was indicted on charges related to the event but was never convicted. Mr. Means speaks about his experiences at Wounded Knee forty years later at Augustana College and highlights the history of Native Americans in the U.S., specifically his personal struggles with the American government.

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http://www.c-span.org/Events/Wounded-Knee-1973-Forty-Years-Later/10737432361/

AN EXCERPT:   In the summer of 1972, when I was 15, I persuaded my parents to let me ride my bike down to the local George McGovern headquarters every morning to work on his campaign. McGovern, who died early Sunday morning in South Dakota at the age of 90, embodied the core values I had been taught to cherish. My father, a World War II veteran like McGovern, had taken my younger sister and me to protests in support of the civil rights movement and against the Vietnam War. He taught us to stand up for human decency and honesty, no matter the cost. He told us that the definitions of business and politics, the categories of winners and losers, of the powerful and the powerless, of the rich and the poor, are meaningless if the price for admission requires that you sell your soul. And he told us something that the whole country, many years later, now knows: that George McGovern was a good man.

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They’re growing houses in the fields between the towns
And the Starlight drive-in movie’s closing down
The road is gone to the way it was before
And the spaces won’t be spaces anymore

—John Gorka

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Death is the common denominator

According to their web site:  “Energy Fuels Resources Corporation is aggressively acquiring uranium properties on the Colorado Plateau, including the Uravan Mineral Belt District and the Arizona Strip District. The Uravan Mineral Belt is located in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah. ”

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AN EXCERPT:   The study I was reading, done by the Rocky Mountain Research Station, was not, however, examining crowd control of manic organic food caches, but of wilderness areas. It looked at the questions: What will happen as population grows and management of wilderness becomes increasingly critical? Will we accept a loss of solitude in once soothing places, or will we apply limits to wilderness use? The results were not what I expected…

While most people surveyed perceived adverse change and had a “widespread sense that these places seem less like wilderness than they did in the past,” “Most visitors do not consider changing conditions to be very problematic, probably because their coping mechanisms are successful.” Therefore, support for management actions that restrict access, for the explicit purpose of improving the visitor experience (versus mitigating biophysical impacts), was minimal.

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Wilderness limited

AN EXCERPT:   MONTICELLO, San Juan County — A battle has erupted over a proposal for southeastern Utah’s first wind farm…It’s ironic because city leaders in Monticello aggressively promoted wind industry development. Now, some residents are shocked to find out just how close some of the giant wind turbines would be.

In the center of the wind-farm site plan is a section of land nick-named the “donut hole.” It’s owned by nine separate landowners who have created the Northern Monticello Alliance to oppose the turbines.  “They’re surrounded completely by them,” Mayor Allen said. “I completely understand why that would be a concern to them.”

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