Indian lands VS extraction

[Keith Millea]

On Indian lands across the nation,tribes are forced to choose between selling their natural resources,or live in dire poverty.This battle largely centers on the divide between traditional Native beliefs,and those Indians who have assimilated into the main stream culture.

The Northern Cheyenne Reservation is located in the State of Montana.They have coal...............

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries...tion_N.htm

Gertrude Firecrow, 68, has had a dream twice in the past few weeks. "I see big machines ready to dig into the reservation. Their lights are coming toward my house," she says. "It's scary. In my dream, there's no place to go."
The grandparents who raised her said life on the reservation "wouldn't stay the same forever," Firecrow says. Still, she's saddened that fewer young people learn Cheyenne, and she worries that allowing outside companies to mine coal here would further erode tribal traditions. "Elders like me are trying to keep our sacred traditions alive," she says.