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Standing Rock Indian Reservation is in Sioux County, North Dakota, U.S.A. Cannonball, N.D is the place of the Spirit Circle where over 100 tribes and 1,000+ supporters have gathered along the Cannonball River to demonstrate against the $3.8 Dakota Access pipeline as the #NoDAPL movement. It is in the Northeastern part of Sioux County where the Cannonball River meets Lake Oahe of the Missouri River.  

The pipeline is being challenged by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, represented by the national nonprofit Earthjustice, in a lawsuit against the U.S. government over the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. The lawsuite (FAQ on litigation here) maintains the pipeline would threaten both their water supply and ancestral burial grounds. The pipeline, a project of Energy Transfer Partners , is slated to extend from North Dakota to Illinois, carrying crude oil from the Bakken Shale Play. The Bakken Shale Play is located in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota, as well as parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in the Williston Basin. 

 

 



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RISE With Standing Rock

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A revolution is unfolding at Standing Rock's Očhéthi Šakówiŋ camp, where over 200 indigenous American nations and 6,000 people have united in unprecedented solidarity. This movement, sparked by the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, aims to protect sacred water and assert tribal sovereignty against a colonialist state. In an era still celebrating Christopher Columbus, the indigenous rights movement is more vital than ever.

On Indigenous People's Day 2016, we stand with Standing Rock. Journalist Jonathan Klett connects events in North Dakota to D.C., while US Representative Candidate Chase Iron Eyes and Native Organizers Alliance director Judith LeBlanc discuss the stakes. Music is provided by Bethany Yarrow and Rufus Cappadocia. Learn more at lauraflanders.com.

EarthSayers Chase Iron Eyes; Judith LeBlanc

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