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“Many current discussions about sustainability focus on the ways in which human activity...can be maintained in the future without exhausting all of our current resources… there has been a close correlation between the growth of human society and environmental degradation - as communities grow, the environment often declines” (603).

Over the past few months’ highlights of the Sioux Native American protest in North Dakota have been prevalent in the news. Though many pieces have touched upon the reasons why the Standing Rock Sioux have been protesting such as the Dakota Access Pipeline, many articles have been opinion based and failed to relay the facts surrounding the issue of it’s construction. In an attempt to understand the situation and gain factual information surrounding the pipeline and the Standing Rock Sioux, I interviewed Professor Ron Ferguson who has followed the situation from it’s beginning.

Protests continue to grow as the weeks continue to get long for the decision whether or not the pipeline with be repositioned. One of the most talked about controversies talked about in the last 3 months sadly is not over yet, but is hoping to be done in future weeks to come. The Standing Rock Sioux Indian tribe and Energy transfer Partners are hoping the government will see it their way. Both sides have valid reason for why they want it to continue or not to continue ,but it is up to the government as they will have the final say in the finishing of the

Many people are taking a stand with the Standing Sioux tribe to stop the construction of an oil pipeline. Worland addresses this issue by informing readers the recent facts about the Dakota Access Pipeline. Many protesters are using this opportunity to address other issues that Pipeline will create in the long run. Meanwhile, the Energy Transfer Partners company will not let protesters stop the construction from happening. The construction still continues despite the current Administration’s request for a pause. As a result, the fight between the Standing Rock Sioux and Energy Transfer Partners has sparked warmth throughout the bitter North Dakota

Standing Rock and Native Americans alike are coming together to protest the build of the pipeline. This issue is important because it is showing how prominent companies and corporate businesses can achieve what they want and treat a group of people terribly. The Native Americans have gone through many tough time throughout history. From the time that this land was called American and the United States the Indians have given up and sacrificed acre after acre. Their land has been ripped from their hands and destroyed. Where a piece of sacred land once used to lay there is now a mall or McDonalds sitting on it. History is disappearing, being erased from this earth because people are selfish and want greed. They just have to have a underground pipeline, instead of putting it on a train. No, this is not how the Native Americans or their sacred land or main water sources should be treated. Their land needs to be treated with respect just as the people should

In an act of racism and climate change has caused an uproar from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The Sioux Tribe is suing to stop crews from burrowing beneath the Missouri river which is upstream from that Sioux Tribes land. According to the history of Standing Rock, “History” from www.standingrock.org, they explain “The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation was originally established as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. Article 2 of the Treaty of Fort Laramie of April 29, 1868 described the boundaries of the Great Sioux Reservation” (“History”). So many celebrities, like Leonard DiCaprio, are supporting the Sioux Tribe because the Tribe are seen as climate heroes for defending their land. Research from NBC NEWS, “Dakota Access Pipeline: What’s Behind the Protests?” by Daniel A Medina, he states “Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe see the pipeline as both an environmental and cultural threat to their homeland. They say an oil spill would permanently contaminate the reservation 's water supply and that construction of the pipeline would destroy sacred sites where many of their ancestors are buried.

North Dakota’s Native American people, are all coming together to protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which seeks to insert pipes underneath their encampment property and barral grounds. The protesters are being brutally attacked by official, although the natives are peacefully attempting to protest. They are chanting ritual and spiritual saying and attempting to pray on top of Standing Rock. They are facing massive oppression. They are being hosed down in the freezing cold temperature, are being pepper sprayed, and shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas. The Native Americans are calling themselves “water protectors” because they view water as a religious symbol. They chanted “water is life” to the DAPL officials and in return,

As resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, N.D., concludes its seventh month, two narratives have emerged:

Many strikers have claimed that these officers violently incarcerated them, forcibly herded them into vehicles, lacked respect for their cultural beliefs and even maliciously wrote various numbers on the arms of the protesters so the officers could track their whereabouts. For weeks the Sioux activists have tried to proclaim the land where the construction is starting for the pipeline. Multiple arrests and acts of violence have occurred as DAPL accuses the protesters for trespassing on their land. The Sioux were enraged with the police lack of respect towards them as many campaigners were forced to be repeatedly searched, slammed to the ground, and shot with rubber bullets in order to contain the protest against the pipeline. Other activists were even attacked by police dogs, spayed with mace and even a child was pepper-sprayed during one of these attacks. For months the tribes have tried to sue the company and held negotiations to stop the pipeline erection. DAPL flatly refused to cease construction and has recently been found to been defying department orders and foraged ahead with continuing the production of the pipeline. Natives and other members of government have recently pleaded with the president to postpone the pipeline

Well two Saturdays ago the amount of protesters near the pipeline's construction grew into the thousands. The governor of North Dakota the state of emergency and barricaded the protest sites. This is only after a federal judge ruled that they would not hear the tribes requested to stop the construction. After that request of a state of emergency more and more protesters started arriving regardless of the barricades. Due to this, last Friday the federal government announced that there would be a pause in the construction of the pipeline and also considered, Nationwide reform on these kinds of infrastructure projects. Although this causes temporary and may resume and the construction may continue forward. But hopefully with my spread of information you can go out and protest yourself along with the Native American people. Just as long as you have enough money to go out

For the past several months, Native Americans have been peacefully protesting an oil pipeline being placed on their tribal ground, along the banks of Missouri. This was explained by Bill McKibben in the article he wrote, “Why Dakota Is the New Keystone.”

The Standing Rock Sioux Pipeline Protest has been happening over the course of the past several months, along with numerous legal battles and arrests. Multiple tribes have come in aId for what they consider “peaceful protests and demonstrations” on their land in a native american reservation. The protestors are against putting a new oil pipeline into the drinking water of thousands of people.

These photographs show how SWAT teams are tear gassing protesters at standing rock. This violent reaction by law enforcement is further evidence that this is way deeper than just people fighting for clean water. Accusations alongside with photographic evidence of police using excessive force have surfaced. They have used rubber bullets, pepper spray, mace, bean bag rounds, and freezing water on crowds of protesters (“Dakota pipeline: What’s behind the controversy”).

Standing rock is an American Reservation in North Dakota. The native people are fight to keep there water supply safe and drinkable not only that but also their sacred ritual and burial grounds. As native people and protesters gather from around the world to fight against police brutailty and support human rights

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