Selling pipestone has come up quite a bit.
Some pretty clueless people posting in the comments.
http://www.startribune.com/local/95623439.htmlYankton Sioux protesting red pipestone sales
Associated Press
Last update: June 4, 2010 - 12:26 PM
GREENWOOD, S.D. - Members of the Yankton Sioux plan a four-day run from the southeast South Dakota town of Greenwood to protest the sale of red pipestone at Pipestone National Monument in southwest Minnesota.
The run starting Friday is to end at the monument Monday evening.
Organizer Allen Hare says the National Park Service wants to limit access to sacred sites to preserve resources, while tribes want to maintain year-round access. Yankton Sioux officials and runners also want to protest the sale of trinkets made from pipestone.
Curt Frain, the monument's chief of visitor services, says the Park Service understands the feelings of the Yankton Sioux but that other tribes do not object to trading the stone as a commodity.
The Yankton Sioux organized similar protest runs in the 1970s and 1980s
