Small-town citizens get creative in Black Hills uranium mine fight
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
A Missouri State University study identified the main citizen concerns voiced: health effects of radioactivity released by uranium, underground water contamination, land and environmental destruction due to mining, lack of Native American consultation, and cultural rights to water based on historic treaties.
Tribes and water protectors ward off new Black Hills gold rush
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
The moment the U.S. Forest Service posted its July notice of a draft decision to permit gold prospecting at Jenny Gulch here in the Black Hills, tribes, water protectors and treaty rights defenders turned out in droves to ward off the project and others like it.
Totem pole travels to unite Native struggles
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Natural resource extraction, climate change and “unbridled development” are the main threats to indigenous land, according to Caddo Native Judith LeBlanc, director of the Native Organizers Alliance, sponsor of the Red Road to D.C. project.
KXL Victory Celebrations Roll Across the Great Plains
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
The Keystone XL victory was sweet for Native pipeline foes in unceded Lakota treaty territory, and a month later, they were still celebrating.
Treaty People Gathering boosts pressure on disputed oil pipeline
By Eric Warren, Angel Amaya, Jessica Plance, Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Massive direct actions to stop Line 3 tar-sands crude-oil pipeline construction here in Native Anishinaabe ancestral territory launched a weeklong Treaty People Gathering on June 7.
LaDonna fights on in the resistance of Native youth
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
As the Standing Rock Sioux Nation prepared for services April 16-19 honoring late water protector LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Native youth carried on the crusade to defend treaty land from pipeline construction
Oak Flat: Fresh hope for menaced Apache sacred land
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
To make good on Joe Biden’s recent Presidential Memorandum for tribal consultation and strengthening nation-to-nation relationships, the U.S. Forest Service has rescinded its permit for a massive foreign copper mine that would engulf sacred Apache sites here.
Tokata Iron Eyes stars at Black Hills Film Festival
By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project
Lakota youth pipeline fighter and climate justice advocate Tokata Iron Eyes stars in “My Name Is Future,” a new independent feature documentary that fuses her worldview with the art of Los Angeles-based activist Andrea Bowers.