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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDakota Pipeline - winter buildings being built, schools - now semi-permanent gathering -donate
Some say living near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is better than conditions at home in their reservations. They are on Federal Land but it's land taken away from the Sioux by the government.
NEAR THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. (AP) Tribal flags, horses, tents, hand-built shelters and teepees dominate one of the biggest, newest communities in North Dakota, built in a valley on federal land near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers.
Its a semi-permanent, sprawling gathering with a new school for dozens of children and an increasingly organized system to deliver water and meals to the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from tribes across North America whove joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their legal fight against the Dakota Access oil pipeline to protect sacred sites and a river thats a source of water for millions of people.
This is better than where most people came from, said 34-year-old Vandee Kahlsa, referencing the oft-harsh conditions of reservations across the United States. The Santa Fe, New Mexico, resident, who is Osage and Cherokee, has been at the camp for more than a month.
The encampment has averaged about 4,000 people recently, he estimated; only 25 of North Dakotas 357 towns have more than 2,000 people. Its been called the largest gathering of Native Americans in a century, and the first time all seven bands of Sioux have come together in since Gen. George Custers ill-fated 1876 expedition at the Battle of Little Big Horn, Edwards and others say.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/09/16/oil-pipeline-protest-city/
Its a semi-permanent, sprawling gathering with a new school for dozens of children and an increasingly organized system to deliver water and meals to the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from tribes across North America whove joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their legal fight against the Dakota Access oil pipeline to protect sacred sites and a river thats a source of water for millions of people.
This is better than where most people came from, said 34-year-old Vandee Kahlsa, referencing the oft-harsh conditions of reservations across the United States. The Santa Fe, New Mexico, resident, who is Osage and Cherokee, has been at the camp for more than a month.
The encampment has averaged about 4,000 people recently, he estimated; only 25 of North Dakotas 357 towns have more than 2,000 people. Its been called the largest gathering of Native Americans in a century, and the first time all seven bands of Sioux have come together in since Gen. George Custers ill-fated 1876 expedition at the Battle of Little Big Horn, Edwards and others say.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/09/16/oil-pipeline-protest-city/
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Dakota Pipeline - winter buildings being built, schools - now semi-permanent gathering -donate (Original Post)
womanofthehills
Sep 2016
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Donations would be really good for winter buildings - there are lots of children at the site
womanofthehills
Sep 2016
#1
I hope it grows and grows - it is such an empowerment to young American Indians
womanofthehills
Sep 2016
#4
womanofthehills
(8,718 posts)1. Donations would be really good for winter buildings - there are lots of children at the site
Winter is coming and it's going to get really cold soon. We really need to support standing up to oil corporations.
G_j
(40,367 posts)2. Thank you!
K&R!
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)3. More people are heading out there this week.
I have a friend who is taking a bus with some other folks Wednesday. They're bringing blankets, warm clothes etc. Donated to them yesterday. If anyone can't get out there, chances are you can find a local group and donate things to them.
womanofthehills
(8,718 posts)4. I hope it grows and grows - it is such an empowerment to young American Indians
"Native American groups say they have been on the short end of federally supported development plans for decades, from gold mining in South Dakotas Black Hills to hydropower dams on the Missouri River. Energy firms, they say, don't care about their concerns, and the federal government hasn't lived up to its responsibility, enshrined in trusts and treaties, to protect tribes.
'I think the reason the Standing Rock issue has resonated so quickly is because this has happened throughout Indian country,' said Denise Desiderio, the policy director at the National Congress of American Indians. 'Consultation is one thing, but treatment of a government is another, and we need that higher standard, not just from the federal government, which has a trust responsibility, but from private entities that impact trial lands.'"
https://www.facebook.com/BoldNebraska
'I think the reason the Standing Rock issue has resonated so quickly is because this has happened throughout Indian country,' said Denise Desiderio, the policy director at the National Congress of American Indians. 'Consultation is one thing, but treatment of a government is another, and we need that higher standard, not just from the federal government, which has a trust responsibility, but from private entities that impact trial lands.'"
https://www.facebook.com/BoldNebraska