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Keystone XL-Pipeline: Great Sioux Nation wird Kriegsbeil gegen Washington wegen Vertragsbruch ausgraben

http://politik-im-spiegel.de/keystone-xl-pipeline-great-sioux-nation-wird-kriegsbeil-gegen-washington-wegen-vertragsbruch-ausgraben/

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The U.S. Senate defeated a bill to authorize construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, delivering a blow to Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., by members of her own party.

"I came here 18 years ago fighting to get here, fighting to stay here,'' Landrieu told reporters after the vote, "And I'm going to fight for the people of my state until the day that I leave. I hope that will not be soon.''

The bill failed to overcome a 60-vote threshold for passage by a narrow 59-41 decision. All 45 Republican senators voted for it, but Landrieu could not clinch the necessary last Democratic vote.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/11/18/senate-keystone-xl-pipeline-vote/19230347/

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The Navajo and Apache were the last of the great Native American nations to be conquered at the end of the 19th Century. Using a scorched-earth policy, the tribes were massacred by Union troops under the command of Washington. Destruction of settlements and pastoral lands was instrumental in dispossessing the tribes, leading to their eventual subjugation.

Colonel Kit Carson was one of the pioneers of the «white man’s» war of extermination on the remaining rebellious Indian Nations. The Navajo and Apache had lived unperturbed for millennia in the southwest region of the North American continent, which would then become the modern states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah in the newly constituted «United States of America».

Today the Navajo and their Apache cousins are once again under threat. This time not from guns and burning of crops, but from the pollution caused by industrial mining.

Earlier this month, on August 5, a huge toxic spill of waste water from a disused gold mine in Colorado made international headlines when it flowed into several major rivers. Less publicised is that the contaminated waterways are vital for irrigation and drinking water in the Four Corners territory, upon which the Navajo people depend for their livelihoods.

http://m.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/08/28/native-americans-and-us-scorched-earth-continuum.html

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"Idle No More calls on all people to join in a peaceful revolution, to honour Indigenous sovereignty, and to protect the land and water"

INM has and will continue to help build sovereignty & resurgence of nationhood.

INM will continue to pressure government and industry to protect the environment.

INM will continue to build allies in order to reframe the nation to nation relationship, this will be done by including grassroots perspectives, issues, and concern.

http://www.idlenomore.ca/

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Two Republican congresspeople are seeking to pass a controversial bill through the U.S. House of Representatives that would seek the first land grab of Native American lands in 100 years, members of the Ute nation have warned.
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Bill-Seeks-First-Native-American-Land-Grab-in-100-Years-20160919-0029.html

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At least nine anti-fossil fuel activists were arrested in multiple states Tuesday after allegedly shutting down five pipelines that transport crude oil from Canada’s tar sands into the United States.

The activists and support crews were arrested during the morning hours in Minnesota, Washington, North Dakota, and Montana, Climate Direct Action said in statement. In solidarity with Dakota Access Pipeline protests, activists said they used manual safety valves to shut down Enbridge’s Line 4 and 67, Kinder Morgan’s Trans-Mountain Pipeline, Transcanada’s Keystone Pipeline, and Spectra Energy’s Express Pipeline.
https://thinkprogress.org/activists-shut-tar-sands-pipeline-into-the-us-f07079ef159b#.p67hv8yn0

USA. Pipeline vorerst gestoppt

US-Behörden stoppen Bauarbeiten an einer umstrittenen Pipeline, für die Friedhöfe der Ureinwohner zerstört werden und die an wichtigen Trinkwasserrervoirs vorbei führt
http://www.heise.de/tp/news/USA-Pipeline-vorerst-gestoppt-3318651.html

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The Dakota Access Pipeline was originally scheduled to cross the state of North Dakota north of Bismarck, the state capital (pop. 70,000). But then the route was shifted 40 miles south, to the south, to pass by the Standing Rock Sioux reservation (pop. 8200). This is sovereign territory of the Sioux, whose reservation straddles North and South Dakota and whose members include Hunkpapa Lakota and Yaktonai Dakota.

The Sioux are a nation of about 170,000 people, divided linguistically into the Lakotas, Dakotas and Nakotas concentrated in what are now North and South Dakota. We know that there were some in what is now either Wisconsin or Minnesota in 1660 because French traders met them and recorded the encounter. They may have advanced into the Dakotas only after that.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/08/standing-rock-and-imperialism-itself/

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'There’s no way to get around the fact that oil and gas pipelines are dangerous and have exacted a devastating toll on people and wildlife,' attorney says
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/17/more-300-year-new-analysis-shows-devastating-impact-pipeline-spills

It’s Cowboy Cops Cavalry against Peaceful Indians and their Anglo Supporters at Standing Rock

"As darkness does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there's twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
-- Justice William O. Douglas
http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/3371

North Dakota to evict Native American protest camp

Protest camp leaders reject North Dakota governor's order to cease direct action against proposed oil pipeline.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/north-dakota-evict-native-american-protest-camp-161129035035449.html

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The Dakota Access Corporation was not granted the easement needed for construction under Lake Oahe; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for alternative routes
http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2016/victory-for-standing-rock-dapl-easement-not-granted

Standing Rock Calling - morgen beginnt Räumung

Morgen, am Montag 5.12.2016 soll eines der Hauptprotstcamps gegen die Dakota Access Pipeline in den USA geräumt werden. Tausende indigener "Protectors of human rights, indigenous rights and water" sind vor Ort und auf dem Weg. Erste europäische Kreditgeber für die Pipeline haben ihre Kreditzusage revidiert (Norwegen). Was ist mit der Deutschen Bank, die ebenfalls von der DaPL durch Zerstörung indigener Gebiete und Umweltzerstörung profitieren will?
https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/198424

Trump stands with Big Oil, backs the Dakota Access pipeline

President-elect Donald Trump’s energy and environmental priorities can be summed up as staunchly pro-fossil fuels. He doubled down on these positions Thursday, explicitly backing the Dakota Access pipeline, a $3.6-billion project that he has personal financial ties to. The controversial project has been the target of protests for months in North Dakota, where Native American tribes have been at the forefront of the effort to stop the pipeline’s construction under the Missouri River.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-backs-dapl-450c414e6e7f#.qmqpmxa9g

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Protesters celebrated a major victory in their push to reroute the Dakota Access oil pipeline away from a tribal water source but pledged to remain camped on federal land in North Dakota anyway, despite Monday’s government deadline to leave.

Hundreds of people at the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires, encampment cheered and chanted “mni wichoni” — “water is life” in Lakota Sioux — after the Army Corps of Engineers refused Sunday to grant the company permission to extend the pipeline beneath a Missouri River reservoir.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45982.htm