[Jennifer Reeser]

Gender language forgiven. No worries.

Here is an enlightening article, just released yesterday at The Economist. It assumes the likelihood that this block is only temporary, and progress will resume after Trump's assumption of power.

It claims that the hurry here for ETP is because oil drillers have the right to nullify their contracts if the pipeline is not finished by January 1st. It goes on to quote an expert that the pipeline is even superfluous -- built only to fulfill favorable contract terms negotiated before oil prices tanked two years ago.

http://www.economist.com/news/united...line-likely-be

America is an eagle which needs both right and left wings to soar. Normally, I would trust in the left, to right this flight awry. But with the Democratic party completely out of power now, and basically in its worst shape since the end of the Civil War, my outlook from beneath the feathers is -- to echo our incoming president -- "not good."

J

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Video update from one of the camps.

https://www.facebook.com/lastrealind...5359681818992/

[Jennifer Reeser]

Peace is not passive.

I love that. Thank you, sir, for the link.

He says that many at Sacred Stone fear their land will be flooded. Let me explain.

In 1944, the Pick-Sloan Plan resulted in the federal government's flooding of 22,091 acres of Yankton Sioux land and dislocated 136 families. The Army Corps of Engineers ignored tribal sovereignty, Indian law, and treaty rights. Yet another example of the continual breach of faith which is a national pastime with us. It was designed to benefit white farmers, and involved a dam built on the Oahe, in South Dakota. It destroyed 90 percent of the timber land on the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux reservations

Former Commissioner of Indian Affairs Philleo Nash would later say that Pick-Sloan “caused more damage to Indian land than any other public works project in America.” The plan ignored Indian water rights and the Winters Doctrine.

I encourage everyone here to read about it. Most enlightening. Let them call us "pathetic." There is a word for them, too.

Jennifer

[Jennifer Reeser]

The plot thickens. On Wednesday, landowners reportedly filed a lawsuit against Energy Transfer Partners, claiming the company harassed them into selling property for the pipeline. In addition, they say the company lied to them, pressuring them with threats that if they did not sell, their property would be seized through eminent domain, and they would receive no money, in return.

https://www.rt.com/usa/373514-dapl-l...wsuit-threats/

[Andrew Frisardi]

No surprise here, but: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.1261936fcac5

[Catherine Chandler]

No, Andrew, not surprising at all. Good luck, America!

[Jennifer Reeser]

The good news is, America will go on as it always has. That is also the bad news.

Thank you, Andrew.


Signed,
Tired Blood

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

A message from the site.

[Jennifer Reeser]

Not to speak on behalf of the tribe, by any means, but only as an ideological advocate and a "blood sister," again, let me try to shed light on the path. When Bravebull says "Black Snake," she is not being poetic, but this is an allusion to an old Sioux prophecy, that one day would come a black snake from the deep, which would cause great sorrow and suffering. The Standing Rock -- many of them -- believe these pipelines, with their black oil, are the fulfillment of that Lakota saying.

J

[Jennifer Reeser]

Beating a dead horse...hey yah. But as some once observed in disbelief, They fight until the last.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/cheyenne-ri...ry?id=45373370

Oddly, it was the Cheyenne River tribe, not Standing Rock! Please let me reiterate so as to keep focus. This is not about how many jobs may be created, nor the "safety" of pipelines. This is about an alleged violation of the rule of law which includes the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the Sioux and the Feds. Also, in a surprising twist, the tribe has invoked the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

J