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South Dakota Sioux tribe calls Keystone XL pipeline approval 'act of war'
A Native American tribe in South Dakota has called a congressional vote to approve the Keystone XL pipeline an “act of war” and vowed to close the reservation’s borders if the US government tries to install a pipeline there.
The prospective route for the pipeline, which would connect Canadian tar sands fields to the Gulf coast, runs through the 922,759-acre (1,442 sq mi) Rosebud Sioux reservation in south-central South Dakota. The House of Representatives voted 252-161 on Friday to approve the pipeline.
“I pledge my life to stop these people from harming our children and our grandchildren and our way of life and our culture and our religion here,” the tribe president, Cyril Scott, said on Monday. He represents one of nine tribal governments in the state.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/17/sioux-tribe-keystone-xl-pipeline-south-dakota-act-of-war
Sioux Indians Ready for War Pipeline Breaks Treaty
Nearly 1,000 members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other protesters have shut down North Dakota's Highway 1806 as they demand a halt to construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. KFYR's Sara Berlinger reports.
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/north-dakota-pipeline-protest-shuts-down-highway-746677315909
Pipeline’s prospective route runs through Rosebud reservation
Tribe president: ‘I pledge my life to stop these people harming our children’
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August 19, 2016 5:55 PM ET "We can't drink oil. Keep it in the soil," they chanted.
In July, the environmental group Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, seeking an injunction against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which authorized the pipeline's construction. "The construction and operation of the pipeline, as authorized by the Corps, threatens the Tribe's environmental and economic well-being, and would damage and destroy sites of great historic, religious, and cultural significance to the tribe," the lawsuit states.
As The Bismarck Tribune reported, "Dakota Access LLC, a partner of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, countered the Standing Rock lawsuit earlier this week by filing a lawsuit against several protesters, alleging threats to the safety of construction workers and law enforcement."
As the Tribune reported, the demonstrators held signs during a rally Thursday in Bismarck that read, "No Dakota Access Pipeline" and "Rezpect our Water."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/19/490644450/amid-tribes-protest-construction-of-oil-pipeline-in-n-dakota-halts-for-now
And a "Kicking Bird" not from Dances With Wolves.
Is "kicking bird" destroying a snake or an oil pipeline? The main difference is that even venomous snakes are less dangerous to humans and wildlife than shoddy designed and cheaply built oil pipelines, intended to maximize profit, while sacrificing the environment.
