Reverse the Pe' Sla Drilling Permit Now
On February 27, 2026, the U.S. Forest Service approved new drilling around Pe' Sla, the ceremonial heart of the He Sapa the Black Hills of South Dakota. This legally questionable, morally inexcusable action was taken over tribal objections, with no environmental review, and blocking administrative appeal. Tell Secretary Burgum to reverse this permit and stop all mining in the Black Hills.
This decision tramples the 1980 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Black Hills were illegally taken from the Oceti Sakowin. It ignores formal resolutions of opposition submitted by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe weeks before the permit was signed. And it was made under a signed Forest Service document declaring that there are "no known Native American or Alaska Native religious or cultural sites within the project area" ... about land a half-mile from Pe' Sla.
The Black Hills are not for sale. We remain opposed to any and all extraction on sacred lands, whether graphite, uranium, or gold.
Tell U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to suspend this permit and all mining claims in the Black Hills until treaty rights to our ancestral homelands are respected and restored. Mni wiconi — water is life.