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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Rejects DAPL Environmental Impact Statement

September 15, 2023 Darren Thompson, Native News Online. Resist! DAPL, Environmental Impact Statement, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines, Sioux, Standing Rock

The Dakota Access Pipeline was the impetus for the resistance at Standing Rock that lasted from April 2016 to March 2017 where tens of thousands of tribal citizens from all over Indian Country and environmentalists protested. The pipeline was built through the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s unceded treaty lands, less than a half mile upstream of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and beneath the Missouri River. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) Chairwoman Janet Alkire said the draft EIS should be invalidated and the Corps should “start from scratch” a new environmental review. The tribe is opposed to the firm that the Corps hired to conduct the environmental review that has strong ties to the American Petroleum industry.

Standing Rock Sioux March On Washington, DC

December 12, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! March, Sioux, Standing Rock, Washington DC

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Washington, DC–A cold snap did not stop hundreds from marching to the Capitol with Standing Rock Sioux and allied tribe members of the Pontiac and Piscataway Nations on Sunday. Elders embraced allies as “relatives” to continue building on a growing bond of solidarity, and thanked them for their support in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline project over the last year. Resistance camps at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota protesting the pipeline has galvanized environmental movement enthusiasm against fossil fuel projects, which could contaminate the water supply of millions of people downstream.

Wounded Knee III In The Making?

November 26, 2016 Dave Lindorff, www.informationclearinghouse.info Educate! Sioux, Standing Rock

By Dave Lindorff for Counter Punch - The struggle at Standing Rock, North Dakota, between the Sioux people and their supporters and the oil corporations and banks trying to run a dangerous pipeline for filthy Bakkan crude oil through their sacred lands and underneath the Missouri River was cranked up to a new level of violence Sunday and in ensuing days as National Guard troops and the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, bolstered by volunteers from various other police departments conducted an all-night attack using maximum violence,

Newsletter: Solidarity With #NoDAPL Strengthens All Of Us

October 30, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #NoDAPL, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines, Sioux, Social Movements

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Once again, as happened repeatedly over hundreds of years of struggle by Indigenous Peoples, the United States is using a militarized response against people seeking to protect the land and water and standing up for their human rights and justice. The militarized police are collaborating with oil companies and Indigenous people are having their civil rights trampled. The Water Protectors wrote the Department of Justice telling them about Indigenous drivers being harassed, the police conducting intrusive strip searches for minor offenses like trespass, the use of unlicensed guard dogs against protesters, as well as the use of military vehicles and militarized law enforcement. As Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault wrote “rather than seeking to keep the peace, law enforcement personnel are clearly working in tandem with private security of Dakota Access”who are escalating the conflict with peaceful water protectors.

Supporting Standing Rock And Confronting What It Means Living On Stolen Land

October 14, 2016 Berkley Carmine and Liza Minno, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Land Rights, Pipelines, Sioux, Standing Rock

By Berkley Carmine and Liza Minno for Waging Nonviolence - A month after President Obama told the Army Corps of Engineers to pause construction on the Dakota Access oil pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux and those supporting them still find themselves in a dire struggle to protect their water and land. With winter approaching, the 300 tribes that are now represented at the Camp of the Sacred Stone in North Dakota are preparing for a lengthy battle.

A Subzero Winter Is Coming to Standing Rock — Here’s Their Plan

October 2, 2016 Michael J. Dax, www.yesmagazine.org Resist! Dakota Access Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Sioux

By Michael J. Dax for Yes! Magazine. But because the Sacred Stone Camp sits on private land, North Dakota’s numbing temperatures loom as the most daunting obstacle. In the past weeks, trucks arriving daily have dropped off an assortment of donated goods faster than the camp expected, and the pile has grown uncontrollably. Large blue tarps haphazardly cover many of these supplies, and Allard is eager to find a more permanent place that will better shield them from the elements. As the donation pile continued to mount, she had a small plot of land flattened to make room for as many as a half-dozen 10-by-40 tents, which will house the kitchen, pantry, and commissary. Meanwhile, with some of the monetary donations that have steadily accumulated, she dispatches volunteers to Bismarck to buy necessary goods, especially tents to house the overflowing donated goods.

Standing Rock Protests: This Is Only The Beginning

September 15, 2016 Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com Strategize! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Peoples, Protests, Sioux

By Rebecca Solnit for The Guardian - A pioneer monument and a lot of state troopers with batons and riot helmets stood between the mostly young native activists and the North Dakota state capitol on Friday afternoon. Many of the activists arriving at the capitol’s vast green lawn hadn’t heard that the Washington DC judge had decided against the Standing Rock reservation Sioux lawsuit. That was the lawsuit asserting that the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) had gone forward without adequate tribal consultation.

Did Obama Just Avoid War With Great Sioux Nation?

September 12, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! #NoDAPL, Barack Obama, Indigenous Peoples, Sioux

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - The Obama administration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today made a stunning announcement which nullified a much-anticipated federal court ruling regarding a pipeline opposed by Dakota Native American tribes. A U.S. District Court decision removed a major barrier to construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would deliver Bakken shale oil from North Dakota to Illinois.

Newsletter: For Justice, Unity & Inspiring Each Other

August 27, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Dakota Pipeline, North Dakota, Pipelines, Sioux, Water

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The latest chapter in the US war against Indigenous Peoples of this land is being fought by more than 90 tribes in North Dakota against a pipeline that threatens water, air and land, including sacred sites. Indigenous Peoples understand that the environment is to be respected and that to destroy it for corporate profit goes against nature and against ourselves. People's Climate March indigenous @Peoples_Climate People's Climate March indigenous @Peoples_Climate Indigenous Peoples have lived in what is now called North America for more than 10,000 years. They were the first human inhabitants. In comparison, the United States is not even 250 years old. Ever since colonizers from Europe came to these lands 600 years ago, Indigenous Peoples have paid a heavy price.

Dakota Pipeline Delayed By Protests & Court Hearing

August 21, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Dakota Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines, Sioux

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams. Construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline has been temporarily halted as protests against the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile project continued this week at the North Dakota state capitol building as well as at a "spirit camp" at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers. According to the Associated Press, pipeline developers on Thursday agreed to pause construction until a federal court hearing next week in Washington, D.C.—but a spokeswoman for Energy Transfer Partners vowed the work would still be completed by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Indigenous and environmental activists continue to gather in opposition to the pipeline, with between 1500 and 2000 people currently engaged in active resistance. . . If candidate Clinton does nothing to address this issue yet continues into November promising Native Americans that she is our champion, then her words will be nothing but false promises—just more bombast, more white lies to Indians.

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