According to data supplied courtesy of Visit Rapid City, the cancellation of the Black Hills Powwow (BHPW) and the Lakota Nation Invitational (LNI), both held mainly at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, combined for a loss of almost 20 million dollars:
Black Hills Powwow: 10/4/2019 Economic Impact: $3,762,928 10/5/2018 Economic Impact: $2,868,174
Lakota Nation Invitational 12/11/2019: Economic Impact: $15,754,496 12/12/2018: Economic Impact: $17,337,656. [Native Sun News Today]After Trace O'Connell and a wad of other entitled white guys from Philip spilled beer on a group of American Horse School students Rapid City businesses shat all over themselves trying to extinguish the wildfire of anger. Organizers of the Lakota Nation Invitational even sought alternative locations for the annual event — Sioux Falls, Bismarck and Spearditch were considered.
Today the Rapid City Police Department is still staffed by white supremacists and bigots. Former police chief now Mayor Steve Allender, who has been accused of managing "a bunch of racists,” has lamented it costs Rapid City some $15 million every year to address homelessness.
Now, after yet another racist incident tribal leaders have again called for boycotts.
James Maher has produced bronzes of many of the horrific losers in US presidential history for Rapid City’s City of Presidents Foundation: Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Woodrow Wilson, Hoobert Heever, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Now he plans to create a sculpture of Donald Trump so maybe it should be placed in the parking lot outside the Grand Gateway Hotel.
The Official Statement of the Great Sioux Nations signed by 5 tribal charimans/presidents in regards to the racism from the owners of the Grand Gateway Hotel. pic.twitter.com/PgW08WgenZ
— Richard Two Bulls (@TwoBullsSDPB) March 26, 2022
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