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Date of Publication: August 24, 2016
Year of Publication: 2016
Publication City: New York, NY
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Author(s): David Archambault II
Newspaper: The New York Times
David Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, writes from the historical gathering of Native Americans along the banks of North Dakota’s Cannonball River in opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline.
The oil pipeline, previously approved by the State of North Dakota and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, would stretch nearly 1,200 miles from western North Dakota to the Bakken region in Southern Illinois. The route proposed by the subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners (based in Dallas, Texas) takes the pipeline across Sioux treaty lands, through ancestral burial grounds, and just a half-mile from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation boundary crosses the regionally-critical Missouri River.
The pipeline’s construction is now awaiting a federal court decision. Meanwhile, thousands remain camped along the banks of Cannonball River in peaceful protest.
Read David Archambault II’s full opinion piece here.
Protest of the pipeline also took the form of an inspiring 2,000 mile relay from North Dakota to Washington, DC run by young tribal members to bring 140,000 petitions to the front steps of the US Army Corps of Engineers.
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