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At the sacred prairie of Pe’ Sla in South Dakota, Indigenous and environmental groups banded together to halt drilling
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United States — Shilpi Chhotray
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 them – less like a coincidence than being led, the scouts said. Over a rise, they came upon a road freshly cut to the dirt. They followed it, past a parked truck. “Oh my god,” one of them said, seeing a drill turning. “They’re drilling now!”
This story was co-published and supported by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
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Source: The Guardian · Shilpi Chhotray. Published 25 Aug 2026, 12:00 pm.
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