The Oceti Sakowin, also known as the Great Sioux Nation, are actively opposing a proposed exploratory drilling project on lands adjacent to the sacred site of Pe’sla in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The campaign is one of many Indigenous efforts around the world that seek to defend and reclaim ancestral lands from the extractive industry.

A high-elevation meadow also known as Reynolds Prairie, Pe’sla is of deep spiritual importance to the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota tribes, which have used it for ceremonial gatherings for thousands of years. According to Lakota oral traditions, Pe’Sla is the site of creation, “a bald spot among the pine-treed hills…where the Morning Star came down to help the people”.

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