Dale "Happy" American Horse Jr. - Direct Action on 8-31-16 - livestream saved by Unicorn Riot during this action. Standing Rock Sioux Rez, ND – “Though, for weeks, construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline has been halted at the site of the protest encampments, pipeline construction has continued unabated elsewhere. On August 31st, dozens of water protectors took it upon themselves to stop the ongoing construction by using non-violent direct action.” ...[...]...continues
#NoDAPL
This Is What A Warrior Looks Like — water is life
Mike BlueHair 8-31-16 video “ This Is What A Warrior Looks Like #NODAPL “ [YouTube, 3:11]
This is about Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and over a hundred other Native Nations protecting the many, many, many millions of people in the Missouri & Missisippi Watersheds downstream from all 209 locations where DAPL (Dakota Access Pipe Line) will cross waterbodies of which the Lake Oahe (oh-WAH'-hee) large reservoir upstream of Oahe Dam on the Missouri River is among the most upstream from:
Pierre, Sioux City, Omaha, St. Joseph, Kansas City, Columbia, Jefferson City, St. Louis, Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge, Atchafalaya River, Morgan City, Atchafalaya Bay, Lake Pontchartrain, Kenner, Metairie, Westwego, New Orleans, Chalmette, St. Bernard, Belle Chasse, Etc. and So On all the waaaay to the Gulf of Mexico, a small arm of the Atlantic Ocean affecting the Louisiana, Missippi & Texas shores ... and the global economic system ...
This is about Honoring international law made in TREATY OF FORT LARAMIE — September 17, 1851 — “United States (and) Dahcotahs, Cheyennes, Arrapahoes, Crows, Assinaboines, Gros-Ventre Mandans, and Arrickaras — Article I … abstain in future from all hostilities whatever against each other, to maintain good faith and friendship in all their mutual intercourse, and to make an effective and lasting peace.”
This is about Honoring international law made in TREATY WITH THE SIOUX—BRULÉ, OGLALA, MINICONJOU, YANKTONAI, HUNKPAPA, BLACKFEET, CUTHEAD, TWO KETTLE, SANS ARCS, AND SANTEE AND ARAPAHO, Apr. 29, 1868. | 15 Stats., 635. | Ratified, Feb. 16, 1869. | Proclaimed, Feb. 24, 1869 —
ARTICLE 1. ...”The Government of the United States desires peace, and its honor is hereby pledged to keep it. The Indians desire peace, and they now pledge their honor to maintain it.” … “If bad men among the whites, or among other people subject to the authority of the United States, shall commit any wrong upon the person or property of the Indians, the United States will, upon proof made to the agent and forwarded to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington City, proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States, and also re-imburse the injured person for the loss sustained.” —
ARTICLE 2. “The United States agrees that the following district of country, to wit, viz: commencing on the east bank of the Missouri River where the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude crosses the same, thence along low-water mark down said east bank to a point opposite where the northern line of the State of Nebraska strikes the river, thence west across said river, and along the northern line of Nebraska to the one hundred and fourth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, thence north on said meridian to a point where the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude intercepts the same, thence due east along said parallel to the place of beginning; and in addition thereto, all existing reservations on the east bank of said river shall be, and the same is, set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit amongst them; and the United States now solemnly agrees that no persons except those herein designated and authorized so to do, and except such officers, agents, and employés of the Government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in this article, or in such territory as may be added to this reservation for the use of said Indians, and henceforth they will and do hereby relinquish all claims or right in and to any portion of the United States or Territories, except such as is embraced within the limits aforesaid, and except as hereinafter provided.”