North Dakota Pipeline Massacre

In the article, “A high-plains showdown over the Dakota Access Pipeline”, Justin Worland addresses the current situation the North Dakota Access Pipeline has brought upon America and its Native American tribes. In particular, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has a conflict between the Energy Transfer Partners company. Energy Transfer Partners wants to build an oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Reservation. The Sioux tribe is against the project because the oil pipeline will destroy their historical ground and their water source of Lake Oahe.

On Sunday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would have come a half a mile south of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. HOWEVER, Instead, the Corps said it would begin to explore alternative routes. While members of the tribe and its allies celebrated the decision, some worry that the victory may only be temporary, given President-elect Donald Trump’s support for the almost 1,200 mile-long pipeline.However, North Dakota’s governor, the company and members of the state’s congressional delegation all denounced the decision. Therefore, members of the tribe have said for many months that the pipeline would destroy sacred lands and were worried an oil leak could

This paper will argue that the Dakota Access Pipeline is a problem of the Treaty of Fort Laramie, a debate to the indians that are living in the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and is creating a solution that can be brought together as a

White Anglo-Saxon once pushed the Native American people to the brink of extinction due to westward expansion. This ideology continues with the Dakota Access Pipeline because it takes away what little land the tribe has left. For this ideology to stop one must become educated about Native American history and their individual rights. Native American people must come together and fight this modern-day

Hello I am Michelle Diaz currently a freshman at Mount Rainier High School and in my contemporary global issues class we have been learning about the issue of the Dakota Access Pipeline. I am writing to inform you about the issue with the pipeline that has been going on. Since December 2014 there has been an ongoing disagreement between the Energy Transfer Partners and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (also including other native tribes). This disagreement is due to the fact that the oil companies are pushing to build an oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois making the pipeline stretch 1,172 miles. According to the oil company this project would decrease U.S reliance on foreign oil and create thousands of jobs for americans. Though this may be true the pipeline would also be crossing sacred sites that are culturally important to the natives and

This tribe is located in the center of North Dakota near the Missouri river. According to the census, it is estimated to be about 30,000 members in this tribe. Also, there are other tribes that habitat near or around them. For example; Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, the Yanktonai, Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Hunkpapa. These people live in areas or lands that the government provided them to be their homeland. A place where they could cultivate their own crops, take care of their domestic animals and a soil where it was allowed to hunt for food; However, from a time ago the federal government want to use their lands to process a new project that consisted in build a pipeline across few states. This is a tremendous riot between Native Americans and the federal government who support this work. In the meantime, this issue will briefly describe the benefits and consequences of having a crude oil pipeline on native Americans lands.

The Dakota Access Pipeline was planned to carry around 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day to Illinois from the Dakotas. The first major issue within this case was that the US Army Corps of Engineers approved the pipeline without consulting the native tribe’s land in which the pipeline would run through. This tribe is called the Standing Rock Sioux, and are quickly gaining support from environmentalists, and other native American tribes. The tribe was not consulted before the approval to start building this pipeline, and it is to their belief that the pipeline will containment water. The water is considered to be the Sioux tribe’s life source and this is why they cannot allow the pipeline to be built as it will ruin the entire tribe. The groups

Legally, the Standing Rock Sioux are doing everything they can do to try to stop the pipeline from threatening their water supply and sacred lands. One of the United States’ founding principles works to help their cause. Constitutionalism, or “the idea of lawful restrictions” enable the tribe “to claim their rights in court” (Patterson, 2013 p.18). Legal action, as a subcategory of constitutionalism is taken by the Standing Rock Sioux as “...a means of asserting [their] rights and interests.” (Patterson, 2013 p. 22). By using the courts to settle disputes between the two parties, the native Americans are participating in the American political system because they are seeking a way to “... settle its conflicts [to] allocate the resulting benefits and costs.” (Patterson, 2013 p.

A government judge has allowed part of a Native American tribe's crisis solicitation to stop development of an area of oil pipeline in North Dakota. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reasons for alarm the pipeline could taint its drinking water and holy terrains. Region Judge James E. Boasberg's impermanent controlling request is "a blended triumph for both sides," as The Bismarck Tribune composed. In the movement documented Sunday, the tribe had looked for security for a bigger territory along the arranged course for the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, which is set to traverse about 1,200 miles, from North Dakota to Illinois. The zone not secured by the judge's request incorporates lands that the tribe is especially worried about ensuring.

The Indigenous People claim the pipeline will cause safety and health issues for the youth of their race. About 37 years ago a pipeline was built on a North Dakota Sioux reservation. All of a sudden the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe opposes oil pipelines even though in 1980 an oil pipeline which passed through their reservation lands was built without argument or protest. According to insideenergy.org the amount of pipeline issues since 2010 has only been 4,269 and 64 of them involved fatal injuries. Over the past six years engineers have perfected the design of a pipeline decreasing 32% of the small problems oil pipelines once faced thus their protest is plain ignorance. In fact, the use of a pipeline is one of the most safe ways to transport crude and diesel oils. The U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and National Association of Pipeline Safety Representatives (NAPSR)U.S. National Transportation Safety Board state “A barrel of crude oil or petroleum product shipped by pipeline reaches its destination safely more than 99.999% of the time.” The pipeline’s structure will be located underneath of a large water source known as Lake Oahe. If an oil spill or even an oil leakage was to occur the lives of elderly, middle-aged, and youth will have a low risk of disease death due to the three layers of clay, sand and

The Army Corps of Engineers held 389 meetings with 55 tribes about the project and met with the Standing Rock Sioux a dozen times. Consequently the tribe wasn’t satisfactory.So let’s imagine a different scenario — in which any group of people in the United States wanted to block development on a certain site. Perhaps it’s the Mormons who hear a skyscraper will be going up in the place where Joseph Smith saw the golden tablets”(Riley). How long can a person survive without water? What would you do if your only source of water was threatened? So what if these questions are raised by a Native person? It isn’t a matter of being Native to understand it, just being human. You might also say, why don’t they just buy the land so it wouldn’t allow the pipeline to trespass through? They can’t buy homes because they can’t have mortgages. They can’t receive loans to start small businesses because they don’t really own their land. They can’t buy and sell land among themselves without the permission of bureaucrats in Washington. What they have is what economist Hernando de Soto calls “dead capital.” After staging protests over the last several weeks, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has managed to temporarily halt the construction of the $3.7 billion Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline, which would carry 470,000 barrels of oil a day from North Dakota to Illinois, doesn’t actually go through the reservation land of the tribe, but tribal leaders say it’s on land that has cultural significance to them. According to this you can tell that the people who are taking a stand is making a

One of the most controversial topics of this year is the Dakota pipeline protest, creating conflict between the Sioux tribe and the oil industry. The pipeline is to “be built by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners and is designed to transport as many as 570,000 barrels of crude oil daily from North Dakota to Illinois.” as stated by Time magazine, Justin Worland. The pipeline would bridge oil wells in the state’s Bakken Shale, where the development has opened billions of gallons of new oil to recovery, to other valuable consumer markets. However , the issue with this project is that the pipeline would travel underneath the Missouri River, in which is the primary drinking water source for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe . For this reason the Sioux tribe and other environmental activists are upset and for good reason ; no one has the right to step into their territory because it isn’t our land. By the Treaty of Fort Laramie, by the unnecessary harsh act law enforce underwent, and for the fact that they rejected the

The pipeline not only poses a threat to one of only 326 Native American reservations left in this country, but also to the environment as a whole. Regardless of where you stand, the wrongdoing on the part of the United States Government is undeniable. The Dakota Access Pipeline is corrupt at its core and the dangers surrounding its construction have the potential to be catastrophic to the dwindling Native population by threatening their only source of water. A significant saying within the Sioux tribe, especially in times of protest, is a simple one, but one that is clearly not understood by some, and that is “water is

In North and South Dakota, a massive crude oil pipeline has been proposed. This pipeline would stretch from North Dakota to Illinois and would be about 1,172 miles. Along this route lays a small native American reservation belonging to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. These people have called this land home for centuries. And now a Behemoth, fortune 500 oil company called Energy Transfer Partners can endanger the place these people know as home.

Native Americans and Native American supporters have protested against the pipeline because it could potentially threaten sacred native lands and poison the Missouri River.  These protests included setting up camps by the construction site and daily prayers with peaceful demonstrations.  Thousands of people have joined the cause, and there have been protests against the pipeline as far away as New York.  As a result, in December 2016, the Army Corp of Engineers announced its “decision not to grant the easement to the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing the Missouri immediately above the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and to study alternate routes” (cbsnews.com).  This example of peaceful resistance shows how true civil disobedience is still shaping the modern