Native American Pipeline Case Study

To begin, I’d like to talk about the history of gaming and how it came to be, before getting into the pros and cons of gaming and how it is viewed by society. I came across a Native American website that really gave a great description of the early history of gaming. Gaming itself is not new to Native Americas, and has been a part of their culture for many generations, even to their very beginning. This isn’t in reference to the gambling we are familiar with today, that include card games or slot machines, rather, these games required skill and often involved a great deal of chance. “In modern times, large-scale gaming sponsored by tribal governments,” the gambling and casinos we are familiar with today, “started in the early 1980s. As lotteries began to …show more content…
I am referring to the Dakota access pipeline that is such a current, relevant, issue. This has been a very publicized conflict between all parties involved, and it just absolutely baffles me as to the reasoning why the new route is suggested. While the pipeline does not technically touch the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, if you were to ignore the Sioux Territory Under the 1851 Treaty of Ft. Laramie, it does cut through a waterway that borders the reservation. It is this waterway, the Missouri River to be exact, that is the reason the original route of the pipeline was changed. There were concerns over the drinking water that is supplied to the people in Bismarck. Now, if those people have concerns about their drinking water being tainted, and possibly even their land, don’t the Native Americans of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation have the very same right to be concerned? What bothers me, is that there are humans in both areas, Bismarck and Standing Rock, so how is something that is unfit for one area, okay for another. Neither area should be put at risk of an oil