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When Dakota Access Pipeline protests began in 2016, then 34 year-old Two Bears was a tribal council member. His community of Cannon Ball hosted one of the encampments until late 2016. [199] A year later, he created an organization named "Indigenized Energy," which aims to bring renewable energy sources to Native communities.
Part three is filmed by Myron Dewey and includes an interview with philosopher and activist Cornel West at Dakota Access Pipeline plus other protest footage filmed by Dewey. [1] The film concludes with narratives about the role of the police and United States federal government in the construction of the pipeline. [1]
The pipeline is owned by Dakota Access, LLC, controlled by Energy Transfer Partners, with minority interests from Phillips 66, and affiliates of Enbridge and Marathon Petroleum. Protests against the pipeline occurred from 2016 to 2017, organized by those opposing its construction, including the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
The film follows Indigenous activists and politicians as they shed light on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Oyate had its world premiere at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2022 and has been screened at multiple other festivals across the United States.
A video was aired on June 22, 2017, showing how people were treated as part of the pipeline protest in September 2016, which included evidence of Dakota Access guard dogs with bloody mouths after attacking protesters. [19] Democracy Now! journalist Amy Goodman filmed the incident, which she published in support of opposition to the pipeline. [44]
Jasilyn Charger (born May 20, 1996) is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and is from Eagle Butte, South Dakota, USA. [1] Charger is a land activist, water protector, community organizer, and advocate for Native American and LGBTQ rights, and a youth founder of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
IEN experienced another surge of media exposure in 2015 as protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline gained attention. The pipeline is currently complete, with the exception of the section mapped to be located under Lake Oahe, which is a major water source for the native Sioux tribe of Standing Rock in North Dakota. After a federal order ...
Reznicek opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline [2] [3] and in the spring of 2016 she began walking and hitchhiking to Standing Rock Reservation to join in the protests against it. [5] Her involvement included locking herself to the construction equipment used to excavate the pipeline route.