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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Passes Resolution Opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The resolution states; “the Dakota Access Pipeline threatens public health and welfare on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation;” it further states that, “the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe relies on the waters of the life-giving Missouri River for our continued existence, and the Dakota Access Pipeline poses a serious risk to Mni Sose and to the very survival of our Tribe.”
The resolution further states that the pipeline is in violation of the Fort Laramie treaty of 1868. “the Dakota Access Pipeline violates Article 2 of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty which guarantees that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe shall enjoy the “undisturbed use and occupation” of our permanent homeland, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.”
On Thursday; (Aug 11th), nonviolent protesters outside North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux reservation entered their second day of confrontation with private security and local law enforcement.
Armed with drums, tribal flags, and cell phones, demonstrators moved to block the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion dollar crude-oil conduit slated to cut just 1,000 feet from the perimeter of native land. by Sarah Aziza, Waging Nonviolence, August 12 2016
Lakota Lead Native Americans, Ranchers and Farmers in Fight Against Dakota Access Pipeline Aug13 2016 by Jason Coppola, Truthout
Amidst the cries of "protect our water, protect our land, protect our peoples," Native Americans, ranchers and farmers are standing their ground along a highway in North Dakota. They are blocking the crews of Energy Transfer Partners - a Dallas-based company whose workers are protected by both police and armed, private security personnel - from accessing the site of the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The roughly 1,200-mile-long pipeline would transfer about a half million barrels of oil a day from North Dakota to Illinois. Opponents of its construction worry that a leak or rupture would spell disaster for not only the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, but for all communities along the Missouri River that depend on it for drinking and agriculture.
This pipeline will cross the Missouri River and Cannon Ball River which is the life line to many tribes and non native, when this pipeline leaks it will destroy the water and land. Water is life!
So this pipeline is along the Missouri River and the KL pipeline was along the ogallala aquifer both are important to save.
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