The Time article “A High-Plains Showdown Over the Dakota Access Pipeline” by Justin Worland talks about a controversy over a 1,200-mile pipeline stretching from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline is called the Dakota Access Pipeline project and is being built by the Energy Transfer Partners company. Some people are outraged by the pipeline because it contributes to man-made climate change. Others are mainly outraged because the Standing Rock Sioux tribe never agreed to the construction of the pipeline. The leaders of the tribe say that “Washington never considered their concerns, as required by the federal law” (Worland).
Meskwaki Tribe The Meskwaki is a Native American tribe that is settled in region across the United States. Also know as the fox tribe they are Algonquian language speaking group that have settlements in modern day Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska.
On the other side of the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict is the company building the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, and to an extent, the Army Corps of Engineers. Seeing as Energy Transfer Partners are constructing the pipeline, they are obviously in full support of the pipeline. On the website that Energy Transfer Partners has created to provide the public with their perspective the pros and cons of constructing the pipeline, they outline many reasons as to why the pipeline should not be opposed (Dakota Access Pipeline Facts, 2017). They begin by displaying a map of the proposed pipeline that shows that the pipeline will not cross Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and in fact, it is located entirely on privately owned land except for a 1,094 ft portion that is owned by the federal government.
The name "Seminole" came about from the tribe's original name of yat'siminoli meaning "free people". That was the name the Seminoles had referred to themselves as because of their refusal to be conquered and converted by the "white man". The Seminole Tribe has long had a unique history with both the land of the Southeastern United States, and with the government of the United States. Their relationship with the land has been drastically altered as the result of three Seminole wars which displaced and relocated the Seminole tribe. As a result of the persecution by President Andrew Jackson, members from a variety of tribes in the Southeast United States began migrating into Spanish Florida to seek refuge.
Over the past years Native Americans had cared for their own sacred lands, the story and religion that their primogenitors had taught them. The Native Americans had still carried the strong belief, that their land shall stay the same as if it should've been until new people had come in from elsewhere to change the land to something we all see outside till this day. However, there is a new project “The Dakota Access Pipeline” that had crossed the line of Native American trust between the new people that had changed everything the Natives had had since their ancestors were still living. No matter what effect the pipeline puts on most people there are some positive causes that can change a person such as protesters to think positive towards the pipeline being built on Indian reservation land. Even if the pipeline can cause many people to have a thought that the pipeline should not be built, only if they can hear from both sides, they can have a second thought and allow the pipeline to be built.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is a underground oil pipeline. Part of the pipeline is on Native American territory. To get access to the pipeline, burial grounds of the Natives Americans would have to be annihilated, going against the tradition of Native American culture. In the article,”
The American dream contends that all who persevere and strive for success will achieve it. This is not always the reality however. Many people live in a state of marked poverty throughout the United States. Not because they are lazy or indifferent but simply due to a wide variety of circumstances that are often beyond their ability to control. Such a situation exists on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, the home of the Lakota Sioux [see map on pg. 7].
Briana Rivera Professor O’Neil January 25, 2016 ANTH 252 Mohave & Comanche Tribe Geography: Mohave: The Mojave (Mohave) tribe were a California tribe of fierce Native American Indians who were hunters, fishers and farmers. The Mojave tribe are highly distinctive due to their outrageous, unique styles of clothing and tattoos that adorned their bodies. Comanche: The Comanche tribe were located in the southern areas of the Great Plains. The Comanche tribe were renown as excellent horsemen.
When discussing this aspect of the pipeline, people overlook their flagrant disregard for Native Americans rights. In encouraging the pipeline, they also support the stain of history: Treaties were made, then broken, as ancestral lands were purloined by colonizers. Identifiable within colonization is the superiority complex many whites have toward other non-white cultures. By claiming something they do not rightfully own, they portray themselves as more dominant.
The Ponca Indian Tribe is a Native American Tribe from Nebraska and South Dakota. Northern Poncas are still located in Nebraska but Southern members of the Ponca Tribe moved to Oklahoma in the 1800s. At the time, the Ponca Tribe was not the only natives living on this region. The other landowners of present day South Dakota were the Arikara Tribe, the Cheyenne Tribe, and the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Tribes. The other tribes that owned had land in Nebraska were the Arapaho Tribe, the Cheyenne Tribe, the Kansa Tribe, the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Tribes, the Missouri Tribe, the Omaha Tribe, etc.
According to the official Dakota Access Pipeline website, “The DAPL is a 1,172-mile underground pipeline that will be used to transport crude oil from the Three Forks, North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois.” (Dakota Access Pipeline Facts, n.d.). While this pipeline is seen as a huge benefit for those in the oil and energy business, numerous controversies have been sparked ever since construction was approved back in early 2016. This is because both environmentalists and indigenous tribes alike were concerned as to how the pipeline would damage sacred tribal lands and cause water contamination, as the construction of the pipeline would be crossing through hundreds of miles of untouched tribal land as well as being built underneath the Missouri River. In response, thousands of individuals, both indigenous and non-indigenous, in person and online, gathered to support the movement and protest the halt construction of the pipeline, resulting in one of the largest Native American protests in recent years.
The Shoshone was a Native American tribe in the western Great Basin in the United States. This tribe was spread into the north and east Idaho and Wyoming. The Shoshone religion was Shoshone rituals. Their population was approximately 8000 members at first, but their population began to increase about 20,000 members. There were three classes in Shoshone tribe, which were the chief and shaman, trading partners, and the servants.
“Benefits of Governmental Compromise Regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline” Nations all have unique governments and differences necessary for demonstrating successful leadership. Every country needs different assistance from their leadership, such as Rio requiring infrastructure or Somalia lacking political power. Some governments concern themselves with their politicians’ well-being more so than the people they lead, which creates a relevant problem in America. The United States Government can easily forget about Native American Reservations, or even ignore the people living on them. Recently, the United States Army Corps of Engineers has worked on the Dakota Access Pipeline project, which would cross over Native American ancestral lands,
The Choctaw village is located in the southeastern of the United States aka modern day Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana. They were forced to move to Oklahoma because US government has set “Indian territory” for the Indians to move to though few didn 't want to leave their home. Beside that fact about their village, they had a very stable village. The men hunted and went to war while the women farmed but mostly took care of the children and cook. Both genders did things to help their village so you couldn 't say the men did all the work while women did nothing.
The name “Sioux” is short for “Nadouessioux”, meaning “little snakes”, given to them by their spiteful long time rival the Ojibwa tribe. The Sioux community was divided into a organized nation of seven different, smaller tribes; later becoming known as: Oceti Sakowin, which translates into “Seven Council Fire” in the Sioux indigenous language. To keep their history alive, the Sioux practiced oral tradition in sharing their past, through the Siouan language and occasionally, they communicated through sign language. They were a dominant tribe in Minnesota that later migrated continuously through the northern Great Plains region following buffalo patterns. The Sioux depended on bison for most of their food source, clothing, and shelter.
