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The Meade County Commission voted 5-0 to approve a beer license for a new Sturgis motorcycle-rally bar and campground near Bear Butte, S.D., a sacred site to many American Indians.
Jay Allen, owner of the Broken Spoke Saloon, bought 600 acres of land north of the butte. He plans to open a new Broken Spoke Saloon and Sturgis County Line Campground on the site for the 2006 Sturgis motorcycle rally.
But diverse groups including the Bear Butte International Alliance and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana oppose the project.
The commission meeting culminated a day of prayer and protest by Indian groups that began at Bear Butte and ended on the streets of Sturgis.
More than 400 marchers, singing and chanting "Save Bear Butte," walked in a slow procession behind a Lakota drum group and spiritual leader...