Archambault said the U.S. government had failed to abide by signed treaties with the tribe – referring to the 1851 Treaty of Traverse de Sioux and 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, two legally-binding treaties ratified by the U.S. Senate that recognize the Sioux’s national sovereignty.
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Native Americans and their supporters used song and drums, prayers and speakers to tell their stories of suffering in North Dakota during a demonstration at Eichelman Park on Monday afternoon.
The US$3.8 billion, 1172 mile project would carry almost 500 000 bpd of crude oil from North Dakota’s oil fields, through South Dakota and Iowa, to an existing pipeline in Patoka, Illinois, where shippers can access Midwest and Gulf Coast markets.
According to RollingStone.com, the folk-rock legend’s tune rails against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is being built to carry oil from North Dakota to IL through land that many Native Americans consider sacred. Hundreds of Native American protestors and their supporters, who fear the Dakota Access Pipeline will pollute their water, forced construction workers and security forces to retreat and work to stop.
Martinez was arrested on criminal trespass charges September 13 for being on private property during a demonstration at a Dakota Access Pipeline worksite.
The protesters are also hopeful, that our countries leaders will look closer at alternative options. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said the BIA is representing Native American tribes.
According to NY magazine’s Vulture, this isn’t the first political protest song Young has penned over the years.
According to a recent CNN report, the project developer, Dakota Access, says the pipeline would help the USA become less dependent on importing energy from unstable regions of the world. Protests have been held in multiple states through which the pipeline will pass.
“The United States has its laws, and pipelines know how to comply with all the laws, but just because something is legal, that doesn’t make it right”, he warned, adding that his people on the ground are protesting to “expose the wrongs and the flaws with the permitting process for pipelines”.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has paused pipeline construction where it would cross Lake Oahe – a dammed section of the Missouri River – less than a mile north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in south-central North Dakota until the Corps can determine whether it should reconsider its previous decisions about the lake crossing.
