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An Indian Protest For Everyone By David Treuer

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The Dakota Access Pipeline is a mile-long from Northwestern North Dakota to Illinois. This pipeline affects drinking water for everyone and invades reservation and treaty land owned by the Native Americans. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, when informed about the pipeline, declared the tribe objected to the pipe construction. The Standing Rock Sioux begin to fight a “legal battle against the pipeline” and soon a “protest diverge” In “An Indian Protest for Everyone” by David Treuer builds an argument that Native Americans have developed a new type of protest when gathering at Standing Rock. Treuer strengthens the logic and persuasiveness of his argument by writing about the unitement along tribes and non-Indians, a leaderless movement and the history of conflict. …show more content…

In Standing Rock, more than 300 tribes work together with outsiders to protest against the pipeline. These tribes are from all over North America, joining the Standing Rock Sioux protest called Mni Wiconi. The Standing reservation set up a camp for the tribes to protest, including Treuer tribe, the Ojibwe. The protest was nonviolent and the protesters called themselves “water protectors.” They wanted to inform the public about “environmental and policy concerns that affect them, too” The manner in which these protesters came together made the Standing Rock protest different. Treuer explains how no leader or no face can represent them and their movement. In the United States, there are more than 500 tribes with “different cultures, histories, landscapes, and ways of organizing politically.” They united at Standing Rock to protect the land of Sioux tribe, but also oppose the government endless goal to mainstream them. Unlike other movements such as the African-American civil rights movement, the Standing Rock could not have a leader making their moment a new

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