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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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Standing Rock: Laura Flanders Show

Published September 27, 2016, by the Laura Flanders Show Channel, this field report documents the Seven Council Fires Community at #StandingRock, North Dakota. Representatives from over 200 nations gathered as protectors, not protesters, to defend their sovereignty, water rights, and land against illegal state actions. This historic effort highlights ongoing struggles against environmental racism and genocidal erasure.

The report explores how Standing Rock and Red Warrior Camps achieved sustainability. It features indigenous leaders including Kandi Mossett (Indigenous Environmental Network), Phyllis Young (Očhéthi Šakówiŋ), Cody Hall (Red Warrior Camp), Michelle Cook (Očhéthi Šakówiŋ), and Terrell Iron Shell (International Indigenous Youth Council). As they assert: "We know how to take care of the land. Just listen to us."

EarthSayers Terrell Iron Shell; Kandi Mossett; Phyllis Young

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