Dakota Access LLC filed the complaint last month against Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II and others from interfering with pipeline construction north of the Standing Rock reservation.
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Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs member Carina Miller said the trip answered a call issued to everyone by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe to protest the Dakota Access pipeline. “He pointed out that despite the controversy, “the right of way for the entire pipeline has been obtained” and that all four states that the pipeline is due to cross – North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and IL”, have issued “favorable certificates, permits and approvals for construction”.
Barker said having people who have experienced the protest was something she was able to learn from the teaching.
The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) joined a coalition of union workers to oppose the project, which is slated to deliver more than 4,500 jobs to three states along the pipeline’s route.
“When this pipeline is stopped, and it will be”, he said, “we’re going to have to thank the pipeline company for all of this”.
The images are shocking: security guards, armed with dogs and pepper spray, attacking peaceful Native Americans marching against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The protest was also organized to help connect people with the Native American Student Association and get them thinking about indigenous rights, Poole said.
On Sept. 9, a federal judge denied the tribe’s request for an injunction to halt completion of the pipeline.
Bender said while oil companies are considering profit, chiefs are considering survival. We are asking for grievances to be aired, an investigation commenced into Dakota Access Pipeline’s violation of the land, destruction of evidence, denial of First Amendment and Treaty rights, and for justice to be served.
If the pipeline is built, the tribe said it will cut through ancestral lands, including sacred areas and ancient burial sites.
The lawsuit also states the tribe’s concern for its water supply in the event of an oil spill, as the pipeline would cross underneath Lake Oahe – a dammed section of the Missouri River – which is half a mile upstream of the Sioux reservation.
“In that land that we bulldoze through are my ancestors too”, White Crane said.
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The temporary policy victory hasn’t dulled the number of people coming to the protest site, according to Standing Rock tribal historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard.
