By Emma Niles – While President Donald J. Trump sharply changed the federal government’s approach to the environment this week as he cleared the way for two major oil pipelines that had been blocked by the Obama administration by signing presidential memorandums calling for the continued construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and the Keystone…
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Looking Back on Tumultuous Year, 2016
President Obama: It’s Time to Send in the National Guard to Protect the Water Protectors
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – What is the Obama administration waiting for? It is time to call up the National Guard and deploy it to Standing Rock to protect the water protectors. At the height of the civil rights struggles in Alabama during the tumultuous 1960s, President Johnson was waiting on the…
Opponents of Dakota Access Pipeline Face Harassment From Law Enforcement, Businesses
By Glynn Wilson – Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline are reporting through social media that they are being targeted and harassed by law enforcement and local businesses throughout the Bismarck and Mandan areas, according to a report out from the Native News. The State of North Dakota issued a statement early Tuesday morning saying…
Neil Young to President Obama: ‘You Must End the Violence Against the Peaceful Water Protectors at Standing Rock’
Drum and song from the Yakama Nation’s arrival at Standing Rock By Neil Young – Tales of a feast on Plymouth plantation in the Autumn of 1621, where of pilgrims from the Mayflower, celebrated the harvest, shared and broke bread with the first Americans are false. They are still used as inspiration and shared with…
North Dakota Governor Orders Emergency Evacuation of Standing Rock Camp
Veterans Group Plans ‘Deployment’ to Join Dakota Access Pipeline Protest
“Let’s stop this savage injustice being committed right here at home. If not us, who? If not now, when?” By Nika Knight – Staff Writer – More than 1,000 U.S. military veterans are planning to “deploy” to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and peacefully support the water protectors’ fight against the controversial Dakota Access…
Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Clash With Cops on Blackwater Bridge
People Across the Globe Rally to Protest the Dakota Access Pipeline
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — People around the country and across the globe held demonstrations, rallies and marches protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota on Tuesday as the Standing Rock Sioux continued their vigil in the Sacred Stone camp at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannon Ball rivers.…
Standing Rock Sioux Pipeline Protest Wins Another Construction Delay
VIDEO: A day in the life of the Standing Rock Sioux Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp. By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – The protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline won another construction delay this week when the Obama administration announced Monday it would put off granting an easement for the pipeline to traverse…
Dakota Access Pipeline Could Be Placed on Hold for 30 Days
By Wes Enzinnanov – CANNON BALL, N.D. — Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault II and other tribal authorities met with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council Building in Fort Yates, North Dakota this week. And according to activists and others in attendance, Colonel John W. Henderson, the…
Chief Arvol Looking Horse to President Obama: Keep Your Word
By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. — Lakota Chief Arvol Looking Horse and the Traditional Elders Council have issued statements urging U.S. President Barack Obama to keep his word to Native Americans and stop the Dakota Access pipeline construction near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. “I greet you with our traditional greeting, Mitakuye Oyasin…
From a Lakota Perspective, the Holocaust Against Native Americans Must End
Standing Rock Sioux Protest is About More than Stopping One Pipeline – By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – Justice Rowland, a young Lakota man camped out in the overflow Sacred Stone camp here, grew up in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. But back in April when he heard about the Standing Rock Sioux protest…
Winter is Coming to Cannon Ball North Dakota
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Condemns Police Tactics Against Protectors
By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II issued a statement Monday condemning the tactics used against unarmed water protectors by police, including rubber bullets and pepper spray. Since Saturday October 22, 127 water protectors have been arrested and there have been multiple reports that peaceful protesters were…
Local Police Use Pepper Spray on Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters, Arrest 83
By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – According to the Morton County sheriff’s department, 83 people were arrested on Saturday while protesting a controversial North Dakota oil pipeline and pepper spray was used in what the local cops called a “riot.” Saturday’s arrests occurred in a confrontation with police after around 300 demonstrators trespassed…
Standing Rock Sioux Prepare for More Protests to Halt Dakota Access Pipeline
By Glynn Wilson – CANNON BALL, N.D. – Sitting with your legs crossed in a campsite filled with traditional teepees along with modern RVs and tents overlooking the Missouri River here, with the sounds of wolves and coyotes off in the distance, a drum up the hill by the council fire and the occasional Red…