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Standing Rock Native American Reservation (Veteran Uprising (((The Veteran…
Standing Rock Native American Reservation
Protesting DAPL
The Dakota Access Pipeline protests aka #NoDAPL began in 2016 against the ETP Pipeline that would send millions of barrels of oil sludge under our national rivers and Native American reservations
The underground pipeline was supposed to cross the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers which is considered a great threat to the people and animals living anywhere on that water line. (SWSS Pasternak)
"WHEN this pipeline breaks, it will not only affect us, as people, but the animals and aquatic life would be impacted too. Basically everything that my people value and care for is at great risk of being harmed." (SWSS Dhillon)
"An officer disarmed by a singing woman. A singing woman emboldened because she had been seen and still gassed, Two people recognizing each others' humanity inside a moment of violence." (SWSS Latimer)
(Friedler)
"Behind him stood hundreds of water protectors. He walked up alone. Police took their positions. Armed and defensive. Protecting the water. (Wood)
"Thousands then Millions, answered the call. "City by city, block by block, we stand with Standing Rock!" "Tell me what the prophecy looks like, this IS what the prophecy looks like!"
"Mni Wiconi! Water is Life! (SWSS Estes)
"For those that see the latest fad of American natural gas pipeline projects for what they are—a last-gasp attempt by energy companies hoping to capitalize on juicy government subsidies as the planet careens into a climate crisis—it’s difficult to channel the necessary energy for opposition to a single project." (Jensen)
Water is Life reached its way to Flint Michigan where it understandable gained traction and become quite popular, the saying is about water itself, the threat presented to water and its life it sustains by oil pipelines and city structure. Water is Life is about refusing and challenging the corporate structures that turn water against the people. (Bruyneel)
Veteran Uprising
I remember being deeply moved when I read that over 2,000 military
veterans traveled to Standing Rock from all over the country in
December 2016. Their goal was to stand between the National Guard and
the pipeline protestors, who had been subjected to tear gas, rubber
bullets and security dog bites. Probably worst of all, the protestors
were sprayed by water cannons in below freezing temperatures. (Tim Scott Articles)
The Veteran Service Corps is still a young organization. They have built
upon the personal relationships developed during the Standing Rock
protest to create a focused, long-term commitment that brings healing
to VSC members as well as help to veterans, families and youth on the
Cheyenne River Lakota reservation. (Tim Scott Videos)
“We imagine a just, equitable world where the passion and talents of veterans are fully leveraged to improve the lives of all citizens, to create lasting solutions, and to build capacity in others.” (Tim Scott Articles)
Sergeant McKee says that working with the Lakota and experiencing their culture, such as the sweat lodge ritual, has helped him deal with PTSD. Providing humanitarian help for Lakota youth programs has also been healing for him. (Tim Scott Articles)
"Anytime a medic hears a cry for help, we have to answer that cry or it’s just gut-wrenching. I answered the call to veterans to protect the rights of the people. That’s what will always keep me alive in my darkest times. That’s who I am.” – Wahancankayapi Win (She Shields the People Woman)" (Tim Scott Videos)
Environmental Consequences
"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 the Mississippi once." (SWSS Estes)
Millions of innocent people on the water outreach from the Missouri River and literally countless number of animals, plants, and whole ecosystems would be affected by a rupture and displaced (Estes)
The DAPL was fasttracked on the fed to-do list since the beginning, using the Nationwide Permit No. 12 process, that grants exemption from environmental reviews required by the CLEAN WATER ACT and the National Environmental Policy Act by treating the whole build as many multiple different construction sites on a series. (SWSS Archambault II)
The DAPL route is a few miles short of what was proposed for the Keystone XL project, yet the federal government's environmental assessment addressed only the bit of the pipe that was in federal land. Projects of this magnitude should clearly be inspected in their totality, but with no closer scrutiny, it breezed through the four state processes. (SWSS Archambault II)
"For those that see the latest fad of American natural gas pipeline projects for what they are—a last-gasp attempt by energy companies hoping to capitalize on juicy government subsidies as the planet careens into a climate crisis—it’s difficult to channel the necessary energy for opposition to a single project." (Martin)
Observers of the #NoDAPL movement worry that the Indigenous Rights movement would be overshadowed by the environmental protection side and activists who aren't fully interested in the survival of Indigenous people (SWSS TallBear)
"Erasing our footprint from the world erases us as a people. These sites must be protected, or our world will end: it is that simple. If we allow an oil company to dig through and destroy our histories, our ancestors, our hearts and souls as a people, is that not genocide? (SWSS TallBear)
"It was not until the 1970's when non-Native activists challenged industry's right to pollute and pillage the environment. This was the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Activists quickly associated naturalism and environmentalism with the ethos of Native American culture and spirituality. This stereotyping is extremely racist, and it muted the claims of Indigenous people working of tribal sovereignty. (SWSS Curley)
Nick Estes reminds us, "There is no question about the accuracy of Standing Rock's contention that the pipeline is being constructed across lands recognized as Sioux territory under the 1851 Treaty." (SWSS Dhillon)
Following the footsteps of history of violence and encroachment on Indigenous homelands, Energy Transfer Partners, with the support of the federal government, violated this treaty relationship between the US settler state and the Great Sioux Nation even though treaties are considered the "supreme law of the land' by the US Consitution. (Manning)
Native American Discrimination
Native Americans have never been treated as equals as the average US citizen, starting from Day 1 with colonizers. Fort Laramie was constructed within Indian territory in the 19th century and peace treaties were enacted to keep distinct land lines. Not even a full decade goes by and the US breaks both peace agreements and crosses into unowned land. (SWSS Dunbar-Ortiz)
Energy Transfer Partners bought the property on either side of the road, known as Cannonball Ranch. The legality of its sale to ETP is questionable under a North Dakota law that blocks corporations from buying agricultural land. (Brown et al)
native historians say, that land should never have been for sale: It belongs to the Sioux. If the Fort Laramie treaties in 1851 and 1868 had been honored, the site would still be controlled by the Great Sioux Nation. (Brown et al)
If the Fort Laramie treay of 1851 was going to be honored by the federal government, the lands used to build the DAPL are owned by the Great Sioux Nation which should be recognized legally. (SWSS Ostler and Estes)
(Intercept)
link to www.theguardian.com
google: moskva river fire after oil spill 2015
google: cuyahoga river fire 1969
google: wounded knee 1973
google: churchrock uranium mill spill 1979
google: david standard american holocaust death toll
over one hundred million indigenous people killed (DineYazhi)
"Nobody is talking about the Arikara village site that DAPL went through and demolished, the Arikara burials, the destruction of the effigies that were laid out in rock on the hill.... There is so much studd out there, and it breaks my heart that they destoryed our cultural patrimony. As I tell people, THEY TOOK OUR FOOTPRINT OUT OF THE GROUND. And who has the right to do that?" (SWSS Estes + Bravebull)
