Case Study: The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

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The pipeline is an issue of culture clash; How can a culture such as that held by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the Army Corps of engineers be compatible? The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has held certain locations with a very high level of respect in their culture for many years. They have considered this land to have special meaning, even though the United States government has legal ownership that doesn’t mean that the tribe threw out the cultural meaning they had associated with the land just because they did not have legal ownership of the land. The notion of American property law is not considered as relevant to their beliefs regarding the land. This is not to say that the tribe is against American law, it is more to say that perhaps