The Black Hills of South Dakota is an area that is considered sacred to the Sioux Nation.

When gold was discovered in the Black Hills, a gold rush began and miners streamed in to seek their fortunes. To the Sioux, the Black Hills was still a sacred place and they were unhappy about the onslaught of mining hopefuls.

As one Native American said...

"We Indians saw it as a beautiful place where we can go and pray and to receive something, perhaps, that is better than the gold that is in there. A lot of our creation stories and a lot of our Indian medicine came from the Black Hills," spoken by Dog Eagle during a History Channel interview.