Tribal Dakota Pipeline Resistance the Start of Something Bigger

[Nick Young]

Our government is screwing over the Native Americans again. This needs to end. Obama needs to stop persecuting and oppressing Native Americans.
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This pipeline has sparked a prairie fire of united Native American resistance not seen since Wounded Knee, and a return of the Great Sioux Nation.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe announced via its Facebook page on Sept. 1 that 188 Tribes, or Native Nations, from across the United States and Canada have declared their support for the Lakota/Dakota Tribes’ fight to stop the US$3.8-billion Dakota Access Pipeline carrying heavy Bakken crude oil from crossing the Missouri River and threatening the sovereign nations’ main water source.


This pipeline has sparked a prairie fire of united Native American resistance not seen since Wounded Knee, and a return of the Great Sioux Nation.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe announced via its Facebook page on Sept. 1 that 188 Tribes, or Native Nations, from across the United States and Canada have declared their support for the Lakota/Dakota Tribes’ fight to stop the US$3.8-billion Dakota Access Pipeline carrying heavy Bakken crude oil from crossing the Missouri River and threatening the sovereign nations’ main water source.

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Protesters against the pipeline prefer to be called “water protectors.” Some even objected to a New York Times cover article that claimed they were “Occupying the Prairie”—since all of this land, even that north of the border of the reservation was originally treaty territory. Elders at the camp released a response (We’ve Always “Occupied the Prairie” and We’re Not Going Anywhere) to the New York Times that said, "We are Protectors not Protesters. Our camp is a prayer, for our children, our elders and ancestors, and for the creatures, and the land and habitat they depend on, who cannot speak for themselves."

On Wednesday, 38 “protectors” were arrested for nonviolent protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, eight in North Dakota and 30 in Iowa. Iyuskin “Happy” American Horse, 26, a young Lakota man among the arrestees, had chained himself to a digging machine for six hours in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience.

This 1,168-mile-pipeline extending across four states from North Dakota to Illinois has sparked a prairie fire of united Native American resistance not seen since Wounded Knee, and a return of the Great Sioux Nation. This is the first time since the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn that all seven council fires have camped together.

The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota are all members of the Oc

[Jasper]

monitoring water , and possibly filtering water , that the Dakotans have for Native Americans would be better than drinking the sludge they drink now.

If you don't know it , Dakota has the worst water in the upper 48... tons of iron and possibly contaminates from run off from fertilizers

[Nick Young]

monitoring water , and possibly filtering water , that the Dakotans have for Native Americans would be better than drinking the sludge they drink now.

If you don't know it , Dakota has the worst water in the upper 48... tons of iron and possibly contaminates from run off from fertilizers

Why is Obama allowing this to happen? How can we help the Native Americans?