"Mining Leaves A Wisconsin Tribe's Hallowed Sites At Risk"

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"Mining Leaves A Wisconsin Tribe's Hallowed Sites At Risk"

"MENOMINEE RESERVATION, Wisc. — Guy Reiter was an archaeologist before he was an activist. But the two merged after a dream six years ago.

'I was in a van and when we drove by the White Rapids I looked over and saw an elder sitting on a dam, in full Indian regalia,' Reiter says. 'He flagged me down, I climbed the dam, and he started talking to me in Menominee.'

Menominee is the language of Reiter’s tribe, the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin. The dam is on the Menominee River, where the history of the tribe begins."

Brian Bienkowski reports for Environmental Health News September 19, 2016, as part of the ongoing "Sacred Water" series.

SEE ALSO:

"Mining in Copper Country" (Environmental Health News)

Series Portal: "Sacred Water: Environmental justice in Indian Country" (Environmental Health News)

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Source: EHN, 09/19/2016

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