CANNON BALL, North Dakota -- Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II and Councilman Dana Yellow Fat were arrested today at the blockade of the Dakota Access Pipeline, on Standing Rock Indian land in North Dakota at Cannon Ball.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol and Morton County Sheriff's deputies arrested the Standing Rock Chairman and Councilman today and 12 others yesterday -- including Dakota and Lakota women, who were thrown around by police and arrested, as they defended their sacred land and sacred water of the Missouri River.
Burial places near pipeline confirmed
On Friday afternoon, the pipeline crew halted digging after burrowing into a cultural site with the potential for human remains.
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Dustin Thompson with
LaDonna Allard and her husband Miles. |
Dustin Thompson, community member, said there are burial places in the immediate area of the pipeline crew.
"There are many sacred sites and on any day they can potentially hit human remains," Thompson told Censored News late Friday.
"Cannonball Ranch is Treaty land," Thompson said. Thompson said the people must make a stand for the sake of the children.
"What will we tell our children, as men, if we don't stand up."
"The Dakota Access Pipeline project runs through unceded territory of the Lakota people. Many parcels of land are still owned by Native Americans."
"We must stand together to fight corporate interests that will destroy the land and water for profit. The installation of this pipeline will cause permanent damage to the ecology of the land disturbed."
"Poisonous chemicals are bound to leak out of this pipeline that will cause high rates of cancer in the people and animals downstream of this project," Thompson said.
Federal law requires work to halt
Yvonne Swan, Colville Nation, responded and pointed out that federal law requires the work to halt.
Arrests of Standing Rock Councilman
Dana Wasinzi; Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle;
Chairman Dave Archambault
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Swan said, "All destructive construction work should be stopped. Sacred sites should be protected under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978. The Lakota, Dakota and Nakota have the spiritual mandate, the God-given right, to take care of their land and life. Prayers for our relatives are going up."
Dakota Access pipeline plans to drill under the Missouri River for this crude oil pipeline and endanger the river water sources of Native Americans of the Missouri and Cannonball Rivers.
The Oyate Media Network reports that the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and council just announced its support to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and is sending buses of Lakotas from Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
“The Oglala are sending 300 Lakota on buses and a caravan to go and support them in their efforts to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline will be built under the Missouri River and the Mississippi River. It not only affects the Lakota Dakota Nakota nations but everybody who use the fresh water for daily life.”
Pipeline system includes dirty crude oil from Alberta, Canada
The path of destruction is just beginning of the Dakota Access Pipeline. People were told that the tarsands pipeline had been halted -- and celebrated President Obama's action -- but this new pipeline system is part of a scheme to deceive people. This is just another tarsands pipeline. Look at the paths and transfer stations.
The maps reveal two paths through the heart of the country -- landowners, water and land would be destroyed in a vast region, from North Dakota and beyond. This means that land will be seized by the pipeline in Illinois, Iowa, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Kentucky, Missouri, and more.
This scheme was no doubt in the works a long time before it was made public. The Army Corps of Engineers approved 60 river crossings in Iowa alone.
How long was President Obama aware of this scheme?
The pipeline system stretches up to Alberta, Canada, and will transport the dirty tarsands crude oil that Native Americans and landowners have been fighting for years.
Enbridge and Marathon just announced in August that they bought into the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline work began in Cannon Ball this week. The Standing Rock Sioux Nation's case has not yet been heard in court.
Dakota and Lakota share power of this land
LaDonna Bravebull Allard, Lakota, Dakota, land owner said, "The place where pipeline will cross on the Cannonball is the place where the Mandan came into the world after the great flood, it is also a place where the Mandan had their Okipa, or Sundance. Later this is where Wisespirit and Tatanka Ohitika held sundances. There are numerous old Mandan, Cheyenne, and Arikara villages located in this area and burial sites. This is also where the sacred medicine rock is located, which tells the future.”
Avis Little Eagle of Standing Rock pointed out the media is uninformed of the facts about treaties and refuses to inform people that pipelines leak. Little Eagle is Hunkpapa Lakota woman, former Vice Chairwoman of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and current publisher of The Teton Times Newspaper.
“I read one of the news stories in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and the reporter kept saying that the water protectors were outside reservation boundaries -- like ‘go back to the reservation’ Indians. That is one of the reasons Native America must write their own stories."
"The water protectors are standing their ground in 1868 Treaty Territory, which if the reporter knew their U. S. Constitution, is supreme law, above and before the Congress and the U. S. Courts. And as for the Army Corps, they are also ignoring treaty and Winters Doctrine Rights of the Lakota/Dakota Oyate who are protecting the Missouri River from a $3 billion dollar pipeline that will run 470,000 gallons of crude Bakken oil a day across the Mni Sose," Little Eagle said.
“It's not if it will leak but when, and there are 12 million people downriver that also rely on that river for drinking water, not to mention the wildlife that rely on the river. So I'm proud of and praying for our people, humble and pitiful as they are for taking on Big oil when every card in the deck is stacked against them. History will show they made the right choice. But sadly it will be after the river is contaminated and drinking water is fouled and wildlife and fish and the winged nation start dying from the contamination. Then the oil company will pack it's bags and move on and the U.S. EPA will cry that it doesn't have the money to clean up the river. So yes, stand strong Oyate.”
Tipiziwin Tolman, Standing Rock, said, “Standing Rock is my home. I grew up where the Missouri meets the Porcupine Creek. We are Hunkpapha Lakota and Wiciyena Dakota. We are Sitting Bull's people among many others. We are the people who have always lived along the Missouri river, on both banks. Our history is tied to this water, our identity is tied to this water. We come from this water. We were never displaced, this is where Creator put us. This water and this land recognizes our language and our prayers. This water, like all water gives us life and we all need water to live. This pipeline and all the oil fracking is pure poison. Please come to Standing Rock's northern border and stand to protect this pipeline from being built underneath our water, directly above our water intake where our drinking water comes from. When you turn on a faucet today, think of our people and what we are standing for. Calling for all Oceti Sakowin, all nations, to come stand together, come to the northern border of Standing Rock and stand for the future, be a witness for the water, and for the world.”
Jon Eagle, Sr. said, “The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe by resolution claim all stone features, stone cairns and stone effigies within the aboriginal homelands of the Oceti Sakowin. Wherever the buffalo roamed our ancestors left evidence of their existence and connection to everything in the universe. There is a prophecy among our people that told us one day man was going to go too far and when that time came the animal nations were going to show their sacred color. The birth of the white buffalo in Jamestown, North Dakota was a sign that we were in that time of prophecy. The Dakota Access Pipeline is crossing the aboriginal homelands of the Oceti Sakonwin and is destroying sites of religious and cultural significance to the tribes. DAPL will have an adverse effect on the land, the air and the water. Now is the time to go back to our sacred places and pray.”
Today Rosebud Sioux Tribal Chairman William Kindle sent an official letter of solidarity and support to Standing Rock Chairman Dave Archambault, urging the people to battle this pipeline that threatens religious and cultural places of the Great Sioux Nations.
The Crow Creek Sioux Nation passed a resolution on Aug. 11 in full support of Standing Rock's blockade of the pipeline, pointing out that the pipeline and ultimate breaks in the crude oil pipeline will endanger the water sources of Dakota and Lakota Nations.
Yesterday, the Crow Creek Chairman began his journey to the frontline in support.
"On behalf of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribal Council and Tribe, I Brandon J. Sazue Sr., Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Chairman am on my way to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to offer our support in the opposition to Dakota Access Pipeline! We will stand with you my relatives. Whether we are Native, White, African American, etc., our water is our most precious resource along with our children. We must all stand together in this most urgent of times. This is not about race, but about the human race!"
"'What we do today will make a difference tomorrow!'
"If there was ever a time to stand United, that time is now!"
Cheyenne River Sioux Vice Chairman Ryman LeBeau encouraged those at the blockade today.
"Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe has been against DAPL since December 2015. Hand delivered this resolution to Army Corp col. Henderson demanding consultation on DAPL project.. Now we filed as interveners in SRST suit, against Army Corp for not consulting and because water is life, water is scared to us. Keep the prayers Up. Blehiciya po!" LeBeau said.
Flandreau Santee Sioux hand delivered their resolution of support to the Camp of Sacred Stones.Jon Eagle, Sr., said, "The Oceti Sakonwin are united. The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribal chairman and a delegation of Dakota showed up today to support their Lakota relatives. Yesterday the Crow Creek Tribal chairman showed up along with our Oglala relatives. Every band is now represented in defense of our nation. Wopila tanka icici yelo."
The Seneca Nation also passed a resolution of support.Dakota and Lakota youths ran from Standing Rock in North Dakota to the White House, over 1,500 miles, and protested on Saturday, urging President Obama to halt this pipeline. The youths protested again in New York City before returning home to join the blockade on their homelands.
VIDEO of Chairman Archambault's arrrest at:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/08/video-standing-rock-chairman-arrested.html
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