• Treaties are the “Supreme Law of the Land” • 1872 – General Mining Act was passed – and is still in use today. [...] • Genocide tactics included; starvation, massacres, imprisonment, forced relocation to reservations, rape of women, murders, and stealing of children for the assimilation process and policies of “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” in Government and Church ran Boarding Schools. [...] • 1877 – 2001 the Homestake Mining Company, was the second-largest gold mine in the U. [...] Source: SD DANR – History of Mining in SD South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources provides citizens with an interactive map of all the toxic spills and environmental events that are hazardous to humans and the environment. [...] • Wharf is currently in violation of state surface water selenium standards are the East Branch of False Bottom Creek and at a higher level then EPA standards • The South Dakota DANR Board of Minerals and Mining will decide on this expansion in July.
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