The Dakota Access Pipeline: Native American Perspectives

Find continuing coverage on the pipeline here.

Indianz.Com is owned by Ho-Chunk Inc., the economic development corporation of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.

Front page link to the paper located on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.

From the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA).

July 7, 2020 from Indianz.com

From Indianz.com 3.25.2020.

9.18.18 from Indianz.com

Montana Journalism Review's "in-depth web documentary explores how the media covered the 2016 Standing Rock movement in North Dakota." Includes pieces by Native American reporters.

Article posted 10.30.17 from Diverse: Issues in Higher Education about Mark Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock).

3.7.17 Indian Country Media Network

From the Intercept 2.21.2017, includes video.

2.7.17 from Indianz.com

New York Times magazine 1.31.17.

From High Country News 1.23.17.

From Indian Country Today 1.22.17

From Common Dreams 1/17/17.

From Camp of the Sacred Stones website 1/17/17.

12.4.16 from Indian Country Today Media Network.

From New York Times 11.29.16.

From Colorlines posted 11.28.16.

Posted 11.21.16 from Fusion.

10.28.16

10.27.16 Around midday activists reported to ICTMN and on Facebook that the police have begun to remove the water protectors from the 1851 Camp.

10.14.16. "The newly formed Two Spirit Nation will be honored in a traditional entry into the main campgrounds at Sacred Stone Camp at the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance."

From Native Sun News 10.12.16.

From Native Sun News Today 10.5.16

9.20.16 Chairman speaks to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, video link included.

From Indian Country Today 9.21.16

From CBC News, Canada 9.8.16.

From Common Dreams 9.5.16.

From the Santa Fe Reporter 8.31.16.

Democracy Now! interview with Winona LaDuke, Joye Braun and Ajamu Baraka.

Published 10.4.18 from indianz,com

Press release by Standing Rock Sioux tribe on ruling filed 6.14.17.

". . . the Court agrees that it [Army Corps of Engineers] did not adequately consider the impacts of an oil spill on fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline’s effects are likely to be highly controversial."

Letter signed 1.25.17.

Posted on Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Facebook page 1.24.17.

Case No. 1:16-cv-1534-JEB motion filed by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to dismiss Dakota Access’s lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers. Posted 1.9.17 on Standing Rock's website.

Letter signed by 17 American Indian/Alaska Natives who served in the Obama Administration asking the President to block or reroute the pipeline. Dated 11.28.16

From radio show "Living on Earth" aired week of 11.18.16. Interviews with camp water protectors and overview of the movement.

11.14.16 from the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline have been raging for months, but tensions have been escalating. Recently, tribal leaders — led by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II — called on the Department of Justice to look into what they describe as unnecessary use of force by state and local law enforcement.

Filed 10/9/16 from US Court of Appeals from DC Court.

Decision denying the motion from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe saying "the Tribe has not shown it will suffer injury that would be prevented by any injunction the Court could issue. The Motion will thus be denied."

Joint statement from the Dept. of Justice, Dept. of the Army & Dept. of the Interior 9/9/16 announcing the halting of construction of pipeline until more study and consultation with tribes can be done.

PDF of Case No. 1:16-cv-01534-JEB. Filed 9/5/16.

Video from Democracy Now! of Dakota Access pipeline company attacking Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray. 9/3/16

Kandi Mossett, Native energy & climate campaign organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about the lack of coverage of the pipeline protests. From Counterspin, produced by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting).

Rhonda LeValdo reports on the Sacred Stone and Red Warrior camp on the Standing Rock Reservation and their efforts to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. As the Fort Belknap contingent came in Friday night into camp, their President Mark Azure and several others spoke of the reason they came to North Dakota from Montana. Phylis Davis from the Gun Lake tribe in Minnesota and Ricardo Cate, Santo Domingo Pueblo also talk about the pipeline issue. Marei Spaola, Oglala Lakota and John Judd, Choctaw/Kiowa also talk about the use of dogs and mace during the confrontation with the pipeline workers on Saturday where some were attacked by the dogs and others maced.

9.18.18 opinion by Standing Rock Sioux chairman Mike Faith, Jr.

Huffpost interview 5.17.17.

Opinion by Krystal Two Bulls and Matt Remle 4.4.2017 from The Guardian.

2.3.2017 from Indian Country Media Network.

12.22.16 By Teresa Montoya (Diné) from Cultural Anthropology

Essay by Bronson Koenig (Ho-Chunk) in The Players Tribune 12.1.16.

From the National Lawyers Guild Review v.73 no.3 Fall 2016.

From The Guardian UK 11.30.16.

Vice 11.23.16.

Discussion of sacred sites by assistant professor Rosalyn R. LaPier (Blackfeet/Métis). 11.4.16.

11.1.16 from Native Appropriations blog.

Posted 10.28.16 on Transformative Spaces blog by Kelly Hayes.

Letter from 10.22.16 Chief Arvol Looking Horse calling on religious leaders from all traditions to come join in prayerful protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Article by activist Winona LaDuke (White Earth Nation)

New York Times Op-Ed written by Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II

A call to parents, teachers and librarians by Debbie Reese from Nambe Pueblo on her well-known blog American Indians in Children's Literature.

Blog post on Kenyon Review by Shana Osborn, Numunuu (Comanche)/German mestiza artist from 9.29.16.

From the New York Times 11.23.16.

This graph, made by Food & Water Watch for the Standing Rock Sioux and for the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition, reveals who is banking against all those responding to the tribe's call to action.

From Sacred Stone Camp website.

"[This] is the first report to lay out a full and factual timeline of the DAPL process. This report shows the depth and details of co-conspiring between the Army Corps of Engineers and the owners of DAPL, illuminating the level of recklessness both parties are willing to take in the name of profit."