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Newsbrief:
South
Dakota
Lakota
Successfully
Harvest
Hemp
Crop
8/9/02
For the past three years,
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation resident Alex White Plume and family members
have planted industrial hemp crops on the windy South Dakota plains near
Manderson. Last year and the year before, federal drug agents confiscated
their crops before they could be harvested, but not this year. Learning
from the feds, White Plume and friends moved early, harvesting most of
their 3.5 acre crop on the night of July 30.
"They weren't that tall,
but they were done pollinating," White Plume told the Rapid City Journal.
"So we took it out, we cut it, and it's dried."
And soon the evidence will
be long gone. The crop has already been sold to Madison Hemp and
Flax Company of Lexington, Kentucky and will be picked up on August 14,
when a public thanksgiving and symbolic harvesting of a small hemp plot
will occur. Madison Hemp had joined with the Kentucky Hemp Growers
Association to ship a truckload full of hemp to the Pine Ridge after the
feds confiscated White Plume's crop in 2000.
While federal law currently
prohibits hemp cultivation, the Oglala Sioux (Lakota) Tribal Council voted
in 1998 to legalize it. The tribe argues that it is a sovereign nation
with the ability to apply its own laws on its own land. Whether from
fatigue or because White Plume outfoxed them, this year the feds have failed
to mount a counteroffensive, and a hemp crop has been harvested in the
US. Or at least in the Lakota Nation.
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Issue #249, 8/9/02
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