KIPI News, September 19, 2022 – Part 2

Frontline activists gear up for fights against climate bill’s fossil fuel concessions affecting tribal and other people on the east coast. Black, Indigenous and Appalachian communities are fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline and other projects spurred as concessions to last month’s landmark climate legislation. Recently, hundreds of protesters led by Indigenous, Appalachian and Black environmental activists descended upon Washington, D.C. to rally and protest against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a controversial $6.6 billion natural gas project with a planned route from West Virginia to North Carolina.  

A Movement to ‘re-Indigenize’ Yellowstone gains steam…Tom Wadsworth read straight from the 154-year-old treaty that displaced his ancestors from their land as he made a case that Shoshone and Bannock tribal members should be allowed to hunt, fish and gather inside Yellowstone National Park. Signed at Fort Bridger on July 3, 1868 in what’s now southern Wyoming, the treaty granted the Shoshone and Bannock native people the right to “hunt on the unoccupied lands of the United States” in perpetuity, so long as game was found and peace with white people maintained. 

Rapid City man was sentenced to six years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. According to a release from the Department of Justice, Mark Twogood, 57, and other co-conspirators obtained and transported methamphetamine between Colorado and South Dakota. The meth was then distributed in western South Dakota. This case was investigated by the Unified Narcotics Enforcement Team, which consists of law enforcement from the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office, the Rapid City Police Department, the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, the South Dakota Highway Patrol, and the South Dakota National Guard.

 

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