If you missed the gathering but still want to show your support and get involved, Jimmie says that there will be donation points for Standing Rock set up at the Native American Student Affairs Office and the NARTC.
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Native American protestors and their supporters are confronted by security during a demonstration against work being done for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) oil pipeline, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, September 3, 2016.
The proposed 1,172-mile pipeline would transport almost a half a million barrels of crude oil daily from the North Dakota Bakken region through South Dakota and Iowa into IL.
The pipeline is proposed to cross Lakota Treaty Territory at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, where it would be laid under the Missouri River.
Bender said, “For Indian people we feel when one tribe is attacked, all tribes are attacked”.
Energy Transfer Partners, the company constructing the line, declined to comment.
Chase Iron Eyes of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation echoed the concerns about water, per USA Today: “As a country, we need to respect what we call ‘our first medicine, ‘ which is water”, he said before Tuesday’s rally. This protest in Evansville, just two weeks after a protest against this issue that turned violent near Bismark, North Dakota.
Members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs drove more than 20 hours to join thousands of Native Americans and other activists who have gathered along the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota since April to protest a new oil pipeline there.
A federal judge on Friday rejected a request from the tribe to halt the pipeline’s construction, saying regulators had adequately performed archeological reconnaissance. The tribe says the project will disturb sacred sites and impact drinking water.
“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”.
While the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had approved most of the permits for pipeline construction, the native Sioux Indians declared the Corps hurried its decision, did not consult with the indigenous tribes and gave short shrift to environmental and cultural considerations.
The Dakota Access Pipeline project is a proposed 1,172-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline created to connect the Bakken production area in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois.
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.
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We keep busy, Dewey Plenty Chief, 49, said.
