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[From NDN Collective:]

Dear Relative,

Your voice and help are needed to protect our sacred site. Pipestone National Monument is a special place where many Tribes harvest red pipestone, which is used for ceremony and prayer. This sacred site has a deep cultural significance to the Oceti Sakowin and many other Tribal Nations since time immemorial. Sovereign nations have the inherent right to make decisions about their ancestral homelands, which includes C’an O’he, now known as Pipestone National Monument.

Today, the Magellan Corporation/One OK’s proposed Reroute Pipeline Project is threatening Pipestone.

The Yankton Sioux Tribe and many other tribes have been fighting this project since 2023. Previously, the Yankton Sioux Tribe objected to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission’s (PUC’s) comparative environmental analysis and appealed the initial decision for a reroute of the Magellan Corporation’s proposed pipeline, which would run through Pipestone.

We need your help to protect this sacred site from destruction. Submit public comment today!

The public comment period is open to submit a comment in protection of Pipestone National Monument and to oppose the Magellan Pipeline. Initial comments are due June 22 at 4:30 PM CDT. Visit this website to learn a few tips on submitting a successful comment.

You may also submit your public comment via email: [email protected] using “Subject: Docket No. 23-109.”

Suggested comment (please add your own personalized edits):

“I oppose the Magellan Pipeline reroute permit. I support the No Build alternative. We need to protect the Pipestone National Monument and the sacred quarries. The current cultural survey is incomplete and unacceptable. Deny this permit.”

Facts to include:

The Topeka Shiner (an endangered protected species) lives in Pipestone 

The community has concerns about the contamination of water and land with the construction and possible rupture of a pipeline.

it was a journey. a beautiful journey where i got to love lester and meg and katie and the griffins and lavinia… and also lost jason, heloise, don, dakota, jacob, and so many more:(

jason’s death SHOOK me. lester and how he treated it made me proud. it almost felt like i’d dropped apollo off at kindergarten and came back to him becoming lester in high school.

“call on me, i will be there for you” and then toa ended.

i miss lester so much. i miss meg so much. most of all, i miss the arrow of dodona. it had been there since the start and its shakespearean slang made me laugh several times… but the fact that it sacrificed itself to save apollo:( i love you arrow of dodona no matter how many forget you