The Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Air Force came to an agreement to clean-up and eventually reposses a 40-mile long, 15 mile wide chunk of bombing range land on Oglala Sioux land. I'm all for making reprimands, but there is a bit of a issue with having to clean up land that's been blown to shit since WW2.
That, and I keep noticing the phrase 'step in the right direction.' The phrase 'About damn time,' should follow it.
from the Rapid City Journal:
Last week, an Oglala Sioux tribal leader and an Air Force commander sat crossed legged in a Native American tipi and, in a show of good faith, signed an agreement for the cleanup of several acres of bombing range in the Badlands.
This move has been long overdue and we're glad to see the cleanup - and the land being restored to its original owners - addressed.
The tribal consultation plan to finish the cleanup of 2,486 acres of the Badlands Bombing Range was signed by Oglala Sioux Tribe President John Yellow Bird Steele and Col. Scott Vander Hamm, 28th Bomb Wing commander at Ellsworth Air Force Base.
