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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDAPL Pipeline Interests Try Outrageous Fait Accompli and Destroy Ancient Sites
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/dapl-pipeline-interests-t_b_11861618.htmlFait accompli (a thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept)
Energy Transfer Inc. and invested owners of the proposed North Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), have begun psychological warfare against peaceful protestors near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. It will be a challenge for the persecuted to stay vigilant, stay strong and stay true to their beliefs. So far the People have remained nonviolent in the face of dog attacks on their bodies and their horses, while facing extreme psychic trauma in the form of desecration of graves and sacred sites. On Saturday sacred places containing ancient burial sites, places of prayer and other significant cultural artifacts of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe were destroyed by Energy Transfer Partners, Tribal Chairman David Archambault II said in a press release.
The tribal Chairman also has an op-ed in the New York Times that clearly lays out the issues facing Standing Rock.
Acting with a slap in the face to the judicial process, Energy Transfer Inc., in partnership with the Enbridge Corporation and Marathon Oil, bulldozed a two mile, 150 feet wide path through land currently being contested in Federal Court. Meanwhile, ancient cairns and stone prayer rings can never be replaced.
Ask the question: How would you feel if a construction company bulldozed a family plot in a local cemetery that contained the remains of you family?
Energy Transfer Inc. and invested owners of the proposed North Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), have begun psychological warfare against peaceful protestors near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. It will be a challenge for the persecuted to stay vigilant, stay strong and stay true to their beliefs. So far the People have remained nonviolent in the face of dog attacks on their bodies and their horses, while facing extreme psychic trauma in the form of desecration of graves and sacred sites. On Saturday sacred places containing ancient burial sites, places of prayer and other significant cultural artifacts of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe were destroyed by Energy Transfer Partners, Tribal Chairman David Archambault II said in a press release.
The tribal Chairman also has an op-ed in the New York Times that clearly lays out the issues facing Standing Rock.
Acting with a slap in the face to the judicial process, Energy Transfer Inc., in partnership with the Enbridge Corporation and Marathon Oil, bulldozed a two mile, 150 feet wide path through land currently being contested in Federal Court. Meanwhile, ancient cairns and stone prayer rings can never be replaced.
Ask the question: How would you feel if a construction company bulldozed a family plot in a local cemetery that contained the remains of you family?
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DAPL Pipeline Interests Try Outrageous Fait Accompli and Destroy Ancient Sites (Original Post)
geardaddy
Sep 2016
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randome
(34,845 posts)1. I haven't read everything there is about this but...
...weren't most of the 'sacred sites' on private land and the reservation didn't even know they existed until they surveyed the area?
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geardaddy
(24,931 posts)2. I hadn't heard that
so I'm not sure. Could be. Either way, they should be protected as archaeological sites according to law.