The Spirit of Standing Rock and The Never-Ending Indian Wars
January 24, 2017 1:10 PM Subscribe
The Spirit of Standing Rock on the Move. "People from more than 300 tribes traveled to the North Dakota plains to pray and march in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. Back home, each tribe faces its own version of the “black snake” and a centuries-old struggle to survive."
More by Stephanie Woodard: The Never-Ending Indian Wars. The drama and injustice on display at Standing Rock have taught a new generation of observers what Native Americans already know: Even today theirs is a brutal fight to survive.
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More by Stephanie Woodard: The Never-Ending Indian Wars. The drama and injustice on display at Standing Rock have taught a new generation of observers what Native Americans already know: Even today theirs is a brutal fight to survive.
Related Post.
Meanwhile, a North Dakota legislator wants to make it easier for ordinary citizens to injure or even kill protesters.
Having been at some of the DAPL demonstrations in DC, the sense that many at Standing Rock feel they have little left to lose was palpable. If I were Keith Kempenich, I'd watch my back - he's making some pretty desperate and determined enemies.
posted by ryanshepard at 1:27 PM on January 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
Having been at some of the DAPL demonstrations in DC, the sense that many at Standing Rock feel they have little left to lose was palpable. If I were Keith Kempenich, I'd watch my back - he's making some pretty desperate and determined enemies.
posted by ryanshepard at 1:27 PM on January 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
Trump just signed an executive order allowing the pipeline to go project to go forward.
posted by adept256 at 1:32 PM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by adept256 at 1:32 PM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
Looks like I have to get my checkbook out again.
I've donated to the medical bills of two individuals who were wounded previously by police. One nearly had to have an arm amputated. The other nearly lost an eye.
I've also donated to the legal defense funds of the water protectors.
I live in Iowa, and watched this pipeline crap get shoved into our state to no benefit of the state, so my checkbook is the easiest way I have of saying fuck you to these people. I have other ways as well, but I am convinced this pipeline was part of what cost Hillary the general in Iowa. Had she come out early and hard against it, she would have been embraced. Instead it took way too long for the polls to convince her it was safe to go against her donors.
posted by cjorgensen at 1:39 PM on January 24, 2017 [8 favorites]
I've donated to the medical bills of two individuals who were wounded previously by police. One nearly had to have an arm amputated. The other nearly lost an eye.
I've also donated to the legal defense funds of the water protectors.
I live in Iowa, and watched this pipeline crap get shoved into our state to no benefit of the state, so my checkbook is the easiest way I have of saying fuck you to these people. I have other ways as well, but I am convinced this pipeline was part of what cost Hillary the general in Iowa. Had she come out early and hard against it, she would have been embraced. Instead it took way too long for the polls to convince her it was safe to go against her donors.
posted by cjorgensen at 1:39 PM on January 24, 2017 [8 favorites]
Just, god damn it.
The continued resistance and unwavering resolve of the water protectors is incredibly inspiring, but I really, really wish it wasn't necessary.
posted by tobascodagama at 2:30 PM on January 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
The continued resistance and unwavering resolve of the water protectors is incredibly inspiring, but I really, really wish it wasn't necessary.
posted by tobascodagama at 2:30 PM on January 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
> Trump just signed an executive order allowing the pipeline to go project to go forward.
Tsunami of Outrage, Vows of Resistance Follow Trump's Pipeline Order: "We will resist this with all of our power and we will continue to build the future the world wants to see," said Greenpeace's Annie Leonard
posted by homunculus at 3:38 PM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
Tsunami of Outrage, Vows of Resistance Follow Trump's Pipeline Order: "We will resist this with all of our power and we will continue to build the future the world wants to see," said Greenpeace's Annie Leonard
posted by homunculus at 3:38 PM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell Farewell Message for Trump Administration: ‘Don’t Forget the Indians’
posted by homunculus at 3:47 PM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by homunculus at 3:47 PM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
Amazing. It's 2017, and the government is still working to fuck over the Native Americans.
posted by BlueHorse at 4:16 PM on January 24, 2017 [8 favorites]
posted by BlueHorse at 4:16 PM on January 24, 2017 [8 favorites]
Someone asked I follow up here with where I donate, so I am.
I have a friend protesting there, and he recommends following the Sacred Stone Camp on facebook. They will often link to various funding campaigns for legal or medical funds. They also have a website: Sacred Stone Camp. He's an activist with Beyond Extreme Energy and I've funded a couple of his Crowwdrise campaigns (sort of like kickstarter for activists).
Here's a cool story about my friend Jimmy Bett's fiddle.
I often give to legal defense funds (never much, but I still like to kick in). The Standing Rock thing came from a joke on Facebook. Jimmy tried to get me to go to a protest of the pipeline through Iowa. I asked, "Couldn't I just pay someone to do it for me?" and he said, "Yes you can," and sent me the crowdrise link.
He got me to start opening my checkbook for other causes as well.
posted by cjorgensen at 4:29 PM on January 24, 2017 [8 favorites]
I have a friend protesting there, and he recommends following the Sacred Stone Camp on facebook. They will often link to various funding campaigns for legal or medical funds. They also have a website: Sacred Stone Camp. He's an activist with Beyond Extreme Energy and I've funded a couple of his Crowwdrise campaigns (sort of like kickstarter for activists).
Here's a cool story about my friend Jimmy Bett's fiddle.
I often give to legal defense funds (never much, but I still like to kick in). The Standing Rock thing came from a joke on Facebook. Jimmy tried to get me to go to a protest of the pipeline through Iowa. I asked, "Couldn't I just pay someone to do it for me?" and he said, "Yes you can," and sent me the crowdrise link.
He got me to start opening my checkbook for other causes as well.
posted by cjorgensen at 4:29 PM on January 24, 2017 [8 favorites]
And here's why they don't want this pipeline: Canadian spill on aboriginal land.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:03 PM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by cjorgensen at 5:03 PM on January 24, 2017 [2 favorites]
My grandmother, born in the late 1800s, was utterly opposed to anyone outside of the family knowing our Blood Quantums. No faith in white people or white law in that woman.
posted by ridgerunner at 10:02 PM on January 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by ridgerunner at 10:02 PM on January 24, 2017 [4 favorites]
ridgerunner, a similar situation in my family.
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:51 AM on January 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:51 AM on January 25, 2017 [1 favorite]
Where I live we've had protests against the pipeline and four people I know were among a supply convoy to Standing Rock this past summer.
Secretary Clinton had substantial donations from oil companies. She probably would not have done an immediate executive order, but tbh she would not have been that helpful on this issue.
President Obama wasn't that helpful on Native American causes generally. Besides not really stopping these pipelines, he denied clemency to Leonard Peltier, who is at age 71(?) likely to die in prison now. President Obama arguably freed many less deserving individuals before he left office.
Extractive industries on Native lands is a situation which is only going to get worse.
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:59 AM on January 25, 2017 [2 favorites]
Secretary Clinton had substantial donations from oil companies. She probably would not have done an immediate executive order, but tbh she would not have been that helpful on this issue.
President Obama wasn't that helpful on Native American causes generally. Besides not really stopping these pipelines, he denied clemency to Leonard Peltier, who is at age 71(?) likely to die in prison now. President Obama arguably freed many less deserving individuals before he left office.
Extractive industries on Native lands is a situation which is only going to get worse.
posted by Katjusa Roquette at 9:59 AM on January 25, 2017 [2 favorites]
Today's episode of Democracy Now has several stories about Standing Rock and the DAPL.
posted by homunculus at 3:21 PM on January 25, 2017
posted by homunculus at 3:21 PM on January 25, 2017
Don’t Let Trump Distract You: Public Comment on DAPL Is Now Open. Now until Feb. 20 is the public’s chance to push for a full review of the pipeline’s climate impacts. Here’s what to do.
posted by homunculus at 6:37 PM on January 25, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by homunculus at 6:37 PM on January 25, 2017 [3 favorites]
Standing Rock Chairman Demands “Leader to Leader” Meeting With Trump. One week into the first mandatory public comment period of the DAPL environmental review, the government system stopped taking comments.
posted by homunculus at 2:01 PM on January 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 2:01 PM on January 26, 2017 [1 favorite]
Following Trump's "Utterly Alarming" DAPL Order Would Violate Law, Tribe Warns. "[T]he law requires that changes in agency positions be backed by new circumstances or new evidence, not simply by the president's whim."
posted by homunculus at 2:02 PM on January 26, 2017
posted by homunculus at 2:02 PM on January 26, 2017
Banks Agree to Talk With Tribe (While Handing over Millions for Dakota Access): Seven banks—including Wells Fargo, TD Bank, and Citibank—will meet with Standing Rock Sioux leaders after months of intense defund-DAPL pressure.
posted by homunculus at 2:02 PM on January 27, 2017
posted by homunculus at 2:02 PM on January 27, 2017
Tribe Uneasy About Border Surveillance Plans on Their Land: Tensions are high on the Tohono O’odham Nation, where Border Patrol has proposed high-tech surveillance towers as part of a sophisticated “virtual wall” system.
posted by homunculus at 2:04 PM on January 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 2:04 PM on January 27, 2017 [1 favorite]
5 Ways Indian Country Can Resist Trump’s Chaos: North Dakota’s move to put states in charge of reservations is just one example of the possible nonsense to come. The Trump Era will require new strategies.
posted by homunculus at 1:30 PM on January 29, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by homunculus at 1:30 PM on January 29, 2017 [2 favorites]
From the Trump thread:
'Over my dead body': tribe aims to block Trump's border wall on Arizona land. Controlling 2.8m acres of a reservation, the Tohono O’odham Nation vowed to oppose construction on its land and called for a meeting with the president
posted by homunculus at 3:10 PM on January 29, 2017
'Over my dead body': tribe aims to block Trump's border wall on Arizona land. Controlling 2.8m acres of a reservation, the Tohono O’odham Nation vowed to oppose construction on its land and called for a meeting with the president
posted by homunculus at 3:10 PM on January 29, 2017
Defund DAPL Spreads Across Indian Country as Tribes Divest: The Navajo Nation is making moves to join a growing number of tribes that have already respectfully, but conclusively, shown Wells Fargo the door.
posted by homunculus at 6:37 PM on February 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 6:37 PM on February 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
Push to Evict Remaining NoDAPL Water Protectors Intensifies: Unseasonably high temperatures fuel increased pressure on water protectors to leave flood plain
posted by homunculus at 4:46 PM on February 20, 2017
posted by homunculus at 4:46 PM on February 20, 2017
URGENT Message from Standing Rock as Police Surround Their Camp
posted by homunculus at 4:47 PM on February 20, 2017
posted by homunculus at 4:47 PM on February 20, 2017
Taxpayer-Funded Horror at Standing Rock: Police brutality against protesters is reminiscent of civil-rights battles like Selma. And the state has borrowed millions to fund it.
posted by homunculus at 6:51 PM on February 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 6:51 PM on February 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
We Have to Keep Fighting: Water Protectors Vow Continued Resistance to #DAPL as Main Camp Is Evicted
posted by homunculus at 2:59 PM on February 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 2:59 PM on February 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
The Standing Rock Fire Is Visible All Over the United States. And it won't soon be forgotten.
posted by homunculus at 3:03 PM on February 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 3:03 PM on February 23, 2017 [1 favorite]
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