"The Black Snake is the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile pipeline that transports half a million barrels of oil a day across four states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois) and under the Missouri River twice and under Mississippi River once" (“The Black Snake, #NoDAPL, and the Rise of a People’s Movement” in SWSS).
"The November 8, 2016, election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency came as a shock to most of the country" (“Wake Work Versus Work of Settler Memory: Modes of Solidarity in #NoDAPL, Black Lives Matter, and Anti-Trumpism” in SWSS)
Trumps wanted to keep going with Dakota Access Pipeline plan and take everything from Indigenous people. This election was not good for Standing Rock.
