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Article: Kevin Costner's gold rush. (plans a casino in the South Dakota Black Hills)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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Rapid City, South Dakota
Have you been wondering where Kevin Costner may invest his slice of that theater ticket you bought to see Dances with Wolves? The Lakota Sioux, who helped Costner make the movie, are generally not happy about his proposal to build an eighty-five-acre, $95 million resort and casino in their sacred Black Hills.
An editorial in Indian Country Today compared Costner's "gold rush" with the invasions of the Paha Sapa ("hills that are black") during the 1870s by General George Armstrong Custer, who violated treaties and triggered a rush in the hills for what Lakota holy man Black Elk called "the yellow metal that drives white men ...