Sacred Grounds Desecrated at Sturgis
Bikers USA Editorial
With approximately 200,000 riders in Waterloo Alabama, the number of riders who go on the Trail of Tears Ride is quite impressive. Sadly, the number of supporters for Bikers for Bear Butte, pales in comparison. If you care about freedoms, such as religious freedoms, or rights, such as the rights of indigenous people, there is what appears to be an evident hypocrisy that bikers need to be aware of in order to overcome. At the 2006 Sturgis Rally, most bikers saw lots of Indians gathered in protest. They were not there to protest your presence! They were there to ask your support in keeping commercial interests from destroying their sacred grounds. Only a few bikers stopped to talk with them and find out why. Good for those few! One uninformed biker spat at them as he rode past a group. They are not anti-biker.
What you saw at Sturgis was NOT Indians versus Bikers.
It is Indians versus Fatcats bent on further desecrating and ruining their sacred grounds and using your hard-earned money and politics to do it. The Indians RESPECT your heritage and traditions and want to work with you, to let you know how you can RESPECT theirs. Bikers USA calls on riders along the Trail of Tears to please learn of the pending destruction taking place at Bear Butte, and spread the word about supporting Bikers for Bear Butte in 2007. Bikers for Bear Butte seeks to educate bikers about how to honor requests by tribes, to help them in preserving Bear Butte Mountain, north of Sturgis, as Sacred Grounds, rather than letting them be overrun by commercial interests who build closer and closer every year.
BOYCOTT THE BROKEN SPOKE SALOON IN STURGIS, DAYTONA, LACONIA, AND MYRTLE BEACH. WRITE AND TELL JAY ALLEN TO STAY OFF SACRED INDIAN GROUNDS AT BEAR BUTTE MOUNTAIN!
Bikers For Bear Butte
Heading to Sturgis for the Sturgis Rally? Do you love the area? If so, have a great time, but please find out about how to respect and preserve Bear Butte Mountain as sacred Indian grounds. Better yet, join other bikers and the Indians in protecting the mountain from the commercial greed which threatens to overrun the black hills.
Do you want to see porta-potties sitting on Lincolns’ head at Mt. Rushmore? Of course not!
The Indians don’t want to see porta-potties dotting the side of Bear Butte.
Stop rewarding the commercial interests that continue their expansion onto Bear Butte!
Find out who the fatcats are before you head to Sturgis, and don’t give them a penny. Save the Black Hills for future generations.
“We Do Not Inherit the Earth From Our Ancestors, We Borrow Her From Our Children.” – Crazy Horse
http://www.defendbearbutte.org/call_to_bikers_vets.htm