A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week

At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling This story was co-published and supported by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the sacred prairie in the Black Hills of South Dakota, they set out on back trails. They needed to find out where. That’s when they saw a deer break ahead and a red-tailed hawk soar above...

By Shilpi Chhotray