Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo provided by SURF, Marty Two Bulls Jr., a Lakota artist, burns sage in a stove to cleanse the ...

looks at the Black Hills of South Dakota ... Mount Rushmore is the most visible scar on the mountains. The former gold mine beneath is another, and that's what motivated Two Bulls to use his ...

PHOTOS: Lakota artist smudges the former gold mine inside the Black Hills “I was bearing witness to the desecration that Homestake did every day. It was heartbreaking,” he said. And it left ...

a Lakota artist, burns sage in a stove to cleanse the sacred land at the entrance of a shaft in the Sanford Underground Research Facility, a former gold mine in the Black Hills, in Lead ...