Standing Rock Indian Reservation

Do you ever worry if your family will have access to clean drinking water tomorrow? If your mother or father’s final resting place will be bulldozed, excavated, and defiled? These hypothetical questions posed to you are the realities of the Standing Rock Sioux Native American Tribe right now. The Dakota Access Pipeline debate as to whether or not it should be relocated from the Sioux Native American reservation is presently taking place due to its construction being merely half of a mile downstream from protected sacred land. The Dakota Access Pipeline has already been relocated once before further south from Bismarck due to concerns that pipeline leaks would contaminate water sources (Dalrymple). This same fear of water contamination lies…

There is a current sociological event happening right now, where thousands of people have passed or are passing through the camp of Standing Rock calling themselves water protectors. A 1,200-mile-long pipeline is being constructed by a Texas based energy company called Energy Transfer. The pipeline also known as the Dakota Access Pipeline, is designed to transport 570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois. The Pipeline project originally proposed to go over the…

It would also be connected with other pipelines across the country (New York Times). The Tribal Historic Preservation Office denied the request due to concerns about unknown environmental effects as well as effects on historical burial grounds. The US Army Corps of Engineers claims that they never received this reply and sent a second letter that arrived on September 15, asking again if the Tribal Chairman would like to consult on the pipeline project. Again, the Tribal Chairman refused and…

K. Rebecca. “The Conflicts Along 1,172 Miles of the Dakota Access Pipeline.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 23 Nov. 2016, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/23/us/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-map.html?_r=0. Accessed 27 Apr. 2017. Cohn, Michael Bennett. "Dakota Access Pipeline Standing Rock Standoff: Behind the Front Lines; Thousands of people have rearranged their lives to protect water rights." Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2016. Science In Context,…

across Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. It is a great fear to the tribe in the Standing Rock Reservation that if the pipeline is to be built in this location near Missouri river a leak is probable. If an oil spill were to happen, it will not only destroy the water supply for Standing Rock Reservation but it would also destroy 50% of South Dakota's potable water supply. The risk is too profound for the sake of all the members of this community and the surrounding environment. It is important to…

Since April 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota have been protesting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline because it could threaten their only source of water. The most frustrating aspect of this situation is that the tribe was not consulted about the pipeline before the approval of it. They were completely blindsided by this news and are now fighting for their land. Recently, a massive Facebook protest also broke out in support of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe where…

learned about the protest, and since then their cries for help have had minimum effect on the process of the pipeline. Everyone will have a time in their life when they have to be as tenacious as they can be to stand up for their rights and beliefs. The Dakota Access Pipeline has acquired the efforts of thousands of native Americans, Energy Transfer Partners and the US Army Corps Of Engineers, who all want completely different aspirations. The Dakota Access Pipeline, a pipeline that is…

The recent protests in North Dakota has turned the world’s attention to the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reserve, where a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline will be built if approved. Native Americans argue that the proposed pipeline will damage their vital water sources and affect the whole reserve, making their water undrinkable and harming their health. Crude oil pipelines, usually buried underground, can easily contaminate water (“How Can You Identify Pipeline.”), which in turn toxifies the…

The roles are Provider, Teacher, Bridge-builder, Mediator, Arbiter, Equalizer, Healer, and Witness. I believe that the Veterans who helped out at Standing Rock play the role of a Peacekeeper. The role of a peacekeeper in William Ury’s the Third Side is to provide safety and peace to vulnerable victims that are easily opened for attack. The protestors are easily prone for attack because they are far from where they live and are being watched and monitored by the police who are looking for someone…

This semester in history, we talked about many things that I would not think about on a daily basis outside of school. Our lessons made me think in new ways about different concepts. The two things that made me most interested were learning about the Dakota Access Pipeline involving the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the requirements for voting for the President of the United States. DAPL made me more aware of our environment and realize how one thing could drastically affect so many areas of…