After Two Wars, Standing Rock is the First Time I Served the American People

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After Two Wars, Standing Rock is the First Time I Served the American People

The Sioux struggle against the pipeline embraces so many other struggles in this nation. It encompasses struggles against climate catastrophe, a history of breaking treaties with Native Americans, attacks on the right to assemble, assaults on journalists, the militarization of police, and placing corporate profits over human rights.
We saw journalists being attacked and warrants issued for their arrests just for holding a microphone and interviewing people. We saw police forces using military-grade equipment that Matt and I used in combat zones overseas. We saw the infringement of constitutional rights such as the right to assemble. But most important, we saw Native Americans courageously continue to defend their land and people from a genocidal 500-year war against the state and corporations alike.

@Deal_With_It Said

How many months have the protesters been there? Have they always been camped on private property? Were they ever asked to leave?

When talking about all the corporate greed try to remember that it's stock owners that are the happiest. How many of the protesters have oil stocks in their retirement portfolio?

Not all Standing Rock Sioux are happy.

@Deal_With_It Said

How many months have the protesters been there? Have they always been camped on private property? Were they ever asked to leave?

When talking about all the corporate greed try to remember that it's stock owners that are the happiest. How many of the protesters have oil stocks in their retirement portfolio?

Not all Standing Rock Sioux are happy.

@shinobinoz Said

Average income in Standing Rock is under $5,000. The Lakota have not taken any money from the theft of the Black Hills & they are not about to take any money for polluting Wni miconi! The usa has punished these people for way too long.

@Deal_With_It Said

How many months have the protesters been there? Have they always been camped on private property? Were they ever asked to leave?

When talking about all the corporate greed try to remember that it's stock owners that are the happiest. How many of the protesters have oil stocks in their retirement portfolio?

Not all Standing Rock Sioux are happy.

@white_swan53 Said

okay , lets do some math .
the report says if you go to the camps you won't find many standing Rock residents. well duh, if you had a house just a mile or so away , would you move into a tent and sleep in a sleeping bag or would 'commute back and forth every day ?

So 88 people out of a total pop. of 840 voted on the requisit from the encampmaent to move the camp , now I have no idea how many of that 840 are of voting age but I'm betting it's a lot more then 1 % .

And about that growing pile of sleeping bags in the corner of that office , that bit of info alone , makes the entire white washed article worth reading . I have small pile of sleeping bags that are no longer being used on hunting trips and was wondering how to go about finding out how , who and where to get the info on where to send them . so thanks for the link .

Here's some facts to go along with this deal .

Fort Laramie Treaty 1868
the Dakota Access Pipeline violates Article II of this treaty.


Summary of Section 106 which pertains to consultation of tribes in identifying cultural sites of importance



link to what the UN has to say

@white_swan53 Said

I'm going to share my opinon on the way a tightly knit community of first nation treats other human beings who are not born into their community , my opinion is based on what I seen and experienced one winter when I lived in the home of members of the Jicailla Apache nation in the northern part of new Mexico. I wasn't homeless nor hungry when I was invited to winter with the family. I had met one of the daughters as a co worker on a summer job , we hit it off from the start , then I met one of the son's and ooh la la ,,,
enough history,
The ladies run the home, everyone knows this , no one questions this .. there was not one time that someone showed up at the door that they weren't brought in and offered what ever it was they needed for their comfort. warmth, food ,a visit , whatever it was that brought them to the door was theirs for the asking.
I know that sounds crazy in todays world of 4 dead bolt locks on a door with tiny peep hole and 1 in. mail slots , I could say it has nothing at all to do with respect or I could say it is all about respect . And both would be absolutely correct and totally wrong . What it really is , it's like this , In a home they are a guest in , it is second nature to behave like a guest in some ones home . And in a home that is host to a guest, it is second nature to behave like a host . It's that simply complicated.
so , in the article where the reporter made it sound as if it had been a hard ship to care for two children while their parents were incarcerated for a day or two , that's just one of many clues that this reporter took the words that she heard and put a white wash on them . Now those uninvited people found in the shed , that is a whole nother story . they would have been better off to have knocked on the door like human beings do instead of sneaking into that shed like people who have some reason to be sneaking around .
I'm not lumping all the nations into the same lump here, what i am doing is describing some thing that is universal in a first nations community.

@DiscordTiger Said

It's probably a NM thing, but it always surprises me how similar and yet different our life paths are in terms of knowing people from otherwise small unknown parts of the state. My first roommate in college was a member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe. When the state fair came, it was a few weeks after school started and I was far from my home and no family, they insisted I tag along, and treated me like family because they did want me left all alone in the dorm. It was really nice and done without a second thought in a way I may not have realized as a 18yr old kid, but I look back and appreciate the welcoming and kindness.

@DiscordTiger Said

It's probably a NM thing, but it always surprises me how similar and yet different our life paths are in terms of knowing people from otherwise small unknown parts of the state. My first roommate in college was a member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe. When the state fair came, it was a few weeks after school started and I was far from my home and no family, they insisted I tag along, and treated me like family because they did want me left all alone in the dorm. It was really nice and done without a second thought in a way I may not have realized as a 18yr old kid, but I look back and appreciate the welcoming and kindness.