Why Did Native American Energy Group Come to the Pine Ridge?
NAEG explained how they came to the Pine Ridge: to provide a pilot project of tribal housing and find investors to pay for the project their next step was to assess the tribal members ability to pay for maintenance and upkeep of the new houses, and their assessment showed them the tribal members needed an economy to provide employment for them so they would have the funds to upkeep their homes so, their next step was to offer the discussion of possible economic development efforts that they could help the OST with NAEG next proposed that economic development could happen very quickly from an endeavor to mine Uranium they explained that the profits of Uranium Mining is an economic solution to the tribal members poverty and unemployment and would allow the new homeowners an income to pay for the upkeep of the 1,000-4,0000 homes NAEG would build here at the Aug 15 meeting the NAEG reps and Eileen Janis explained how the company can also do a water study comprehensive to the entire reserva
