"This is, the “Center of the Heart of Everything that is… one of a small number of highly revered and geographically-cosmologically integral places on the entire planet….” Sacred places, recognized under federal judicial review, Presidential Executive Order ( l996) and international law are to be protected."
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Winona LaDuke, (with a quote from Chase Iron Eyes), “The Auction of the Sacred.”
On August 25, the Center of the Heart of Everything that is, will come up on the auction block at Rapid City’s Ramkota Inn, destined to be diced into a set of 300 acre tracts, proposed for ranchettes, and a possible road through the heart, (and more divisions) of what has been, until now, a relatively un-desecrated sacred [Lakota, Dakota, Nakota] site. “We didn’t even know it was going to be sold,” Debra White Plume from Manderson tells me. “We heard nothing about it until we saw the auction announcement.”
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