VIDEO: America’s Chernobyl: Radioactive Dust Near Mt. Rushmore & Black Hills

[Coyotl]

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/02/americas-chernobyl-results-uranium-mining-great-plains-151091

In this video Charmaine White Face, a member of the Oglala band of the Great Sioux Nation, explains uranium mining and its health effects on the people of the Great Plains.

She explains about the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and where the abandoned open pit uranium mines are—a total of 3,272 in the states of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Colorado she says.

“The thing about the Darrow Pit Mine is they are only about 40 miles from Mount Rushmore, millions of tourists travel to Mount Rushmore every year not knowing that they are breathing in radioactive dust and the water that they drink in the motels in Rapid City contains uranium,” White Face says.

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[newfie11]

1. News to me

I lived 11 miles from Crazy Horse for 17 years and had no idea.
I do know about the mine near edgemont and seems like there was an old uranium storage site there. Wasn't that a base of some kind? I remember barracks/ houses being auctioned off 10-15 years ago.
Most of that land is all ranch land now so might want to use a Geiger counter on your next steak look.
Moving back to the Black Hills soon.