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The DAPL operator announced on Election Day that it had completed construction of the pipeline up to Lake Oahe, which is part of the Missouri River. Furthermore, the company stated that it was preparing to begin drilling underneath the river, but it still lacks permission from the army corps of engineers to perform the drilling. The US army corps of engineers has completed its review of the Dakota Access pipeline and is calling for “additional discussion and analysis” (energytransfer.com), further delaying completion of a project that has faced massive opposition from indigenous activists.
It is unclear how long the delay will last and whether it will survive under the Trump administration. Trump’s financial disclosure forms show he has …show more content…

From 1946 until the 1970’s some horrible occasions took place known as the Canadian Holocaust (aadnc-aandc.gc.ca). In these years, ex-Nazi researchers that looked into medical poison, biological warfare, and mind control experiments used Indian children from residential schools as involuntary test subjects. This was all under an agreement they had with the Catholic, Anglican, and United churches. In 1990, the abuse at residential schools was brought up for the first time publicly (aandc-aandc.gc.ca).
Believe it or not, there are more conflicts between settlers and natives around the world than we think. The Indigenous Australians are made up of Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal people. When the British settlers arrived in Australia, they destroyed the indigenous Australian culture.
The combination of disease, loss of land, and direct violence at the hands of European settlers reduced the Aboriginal population by an estimated 90% between 1788 and 1900. The indigenous people in Tasmania were particularly hard hit. The last full-blood indigenous Tasmanian, Truganini, died in 1876, although a substantial part-indigenous community has survived.
Although some initial contacts between indigenous people and Europeans had been peaceful, starting with the Guugu Yimithirr people who met James Cook near Cooktown in 1770, a wave of massacres and resistance followed the frontier of British settlement. The number of violent deaths at

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