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According to The New York Times, "as many as 2,000 veterans" indicated that they would gather at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to serve as "human shields" for protesters. The organizers of these protests included a retired Baltimore police sergeant and Wesley Clark, Jr., the son of former Supreme NATO Commander and 2004 presidential ...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is weighing asking protesters to move to a location with heated buildings or upgrading the infrastructure at the current protest camp on tribal land, tribal chairman ...
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota controls the Standing Rock Reservation (Lakota: Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ), which across the border between North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic "Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaksa bands of the Dakota Oyate," [4] as well as the Hunkpatina Dakota (Lower Yanktonai). [5]
In defense of tribal sovereignty, Archambault spoke with numerous journalists, providing information about the history of the movement and the history of treaty and indigenous rights. He criticized the militaristic-style police response to the protesters at Standing Rock. [8] Writing in an editorial in The New York Times he said:
Leala Pourier says her focus on climate justice was inspired by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe trying to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Dakota Access Pipeline, a proposed $3.8 billion oil transmission line across North Dakota, South Dakota, Illinois and Iowa, was brought forth by ETP.
The pipeline was opposed by the Standing Rock Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux tribes, [126] despite it not crossing tribal lands. [127] In September 2014, Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault II indicated the tribe's opposition to any pipeline within treaty boundaries encompassing "North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota."
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.