Standing Rock is The Center Of The Universe Right Now
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/showdown-over-oil-pipeline-becomes-a-national-movement-for-native-americans/2016/09/06/ea0cb042-7167-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html
CANNON BALL, N.D. — The simmering showdown here between the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the company building the Dakota Access crude-oil pipeline began as a legal battle.
It has turned into a movement.
Over the past few weeks, thousands of Native Americans representing tribes from all over the country have traveled to this central North Dakota reservation to camp in a nearby meadow and show solidarity with a tribe they think is once again receiving a raw deal at the hands of commercial interests and the U.S. government.
Frank White Bull, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council, was overcome with emotion as he looked out over the ocean of brightly colored tepees and tents that have popped up on this impromptu 80-acre campground.
“You think no one is going to help,” said White Bull, 48. “But the people have shown us they’re here to help us. We made our stance, and the Indian Nation heard us. It’s making us whole. It’s making us wanyi oyate — one nation. We’re not alone.”
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Alaskans hold a rally in Juneau, even as the Tlingit canoe carries the Central Council flag down the Missouri river to the camp.
source: Juneau Empire
Jill Burke, Alaska Dispatch News
After living for decades in the shadow of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaskans know firsthand the devastation that can happen and how much potential there is for what Yarrow Vaara calls "epic disaster."
"This is heartbreaking," Vaara, a member of the One People Canoe Society, said Tuesday evening in an interview from Juneau. "They moved (the proposed pipeline) downriver where it is closer to the reservation where people don't matter. It's blatant discrimination," she said.
Understanding what's happening in Standing Rock is important to being Native in 2016, Vaara said. The event has overtones of the stereotypical "cowboy-and-Indian" conflicts of old; but there is something in the fight for clean water, clean land and the health of future generations that people can rally around today.
Shared histories of colonization and oppression are bringing tribes and allies together in a way not seen before on such a large scale, she said.
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Here they are, on the water!
