The cost was way to high for us to sponsor the event there, and there was no effort to see that our efforts were to pray for "all nations, all faiths, one prayer" at these significant places to bring a healing to our Grand Mother Earth, the concern of global climate changes and to bring better relations between Nations and beliefs.

The guidelines are so strict; their concern is for the potential damage to the grass lands and we would have a large crowd of people to come to pray and pay for sodding the grass, yet there is no consideration to the stakes that are pounded in the Butte to climb on our sacred tower, the damage that they are doing to the site itself, that does not grow like grass.

Barbra Snyder with the Washoe Nation successfully got the banning of climbing on Cave Rock in Lake Tahoe. The decision in court is upholding that even the stakes should be taken out and taking out the cement from the site, because they understand that these places are a place of worship and effort is needed to show that these places are truly treated as sacred.

Read about the legal battle to protect this sacred site which has a documentation of the legal battle that was won toward the respect of these places.
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Under the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie written by the United States Federal Government and eight Indigenous Red “Indian” Nations, the Black Hills rightfully belongs to the Lakota Nation, but because of illegal decisions of the Supreme Court still pending, we cannot freely use the Black Hills for the four day World Peace and Prayer Day Event (WPPD). Our Sacred Site issue is an ongoing unresolved case, because of historical gold rush that violated that Treaty. We would have to pay Pennington County $8000, just as we had to in 2000 for a WPPD event that was held there then, just for a permit and then another cost for insurance. But yet when people come and put up a tent for evangelical events, they are exempt.

We demand the state of South Dakota and Wyoming take measures to stop their citizens from trying to build offensive, disruptive, obnoxious and detrimental enterprises near Bear Butte and all similar sites such as the Ho Coka (Center of the World, misnomer “Harney Peak”), Grey Horn Butte (misnomer “Devil’s Tower”)
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Arvol Looking Horse's book, "White Buffalo Teachings" will assist all in seeing the depth of why these efforts take place to protect what is sacred:   LEARN MORE

With Thanks to Scott Barta 1851treaty.com