The Dakota Access Pipeline is a big deal. These past months people have been protesting and debating on whether to let the pipeline be built or not. What is the Dakota Access Pipeline? The Dakota Pipeline is a new underground pipeline that is made by the Dakota Access‚ LLC. The Dakota Pipeline conveys 470000 barrels of oil per day. This pipeline goes through Bakken/ Three Forks Formation North Dakota near Patoka. The Dakota Access ‚ LLC claims that the project will create up to 40 permanent jobs
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property owner. To begin with‚ the route that the Dakota Access Pipeline is being built on was placed on sacred ground of the Sioux Tribe. The sacred ground includes the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and it includes graveyards were they have buried their ancestors. Now before the government wants to build something‚ they need to make sure that whatever they are
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Jesus Barajas Professor Schander Standing Rock Vs. Dakota Access The U.S government has always had a tense and colorful past in regards to environmental and native rights. This issue has again become a source of tension between native/environmental activists and corporate advancement and policy in the form of a pipeline. The source of tension comes from the fact that this pipeline stems from the fact that the pipe runs near a vital water source and also cultural heritage sites that
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"What You Need to Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community." Common Dreams‚ www.commondreams.org /views/2016/09/09/what-you-need-know-about-dakota-access-pipeline-protest. Gail Ablow shares what is happening among the Sioux and the Dakota access pipeline with her personal analysis‚ to inform individuals what they should know about the event. She clarifies the threats and dangers that the Dakota Access Pipeline can bring to the Sioux Native
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Place is the centerpiece of Kathleen Norris’ memoir‚ Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. This textual map is an eloquent gathering of herself as she explores her inheritance and her faith in a small town in western South Dakota. The land she captures on the pages of this aptly named ‘geography’ lives‚ breathes‚ transforms. But Dakota is not for the romantic seeking a nostalgic reconnection with the earth. It is a land of fierce winds and oppressive skies‚ drought and dust‚ killing rains. It is a land
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The North Dakota Access Pipeline; More Harm Than Good? The North Dakota Access Pipeline has been a major topic for national controversy for almost year now. It has sparked a major disagreement between Native Americans and the Government. Is this perhaps another treaty that has been broken? The North Dakota Access Pipeline is a $3.7 billion project constructed by the Texas-Based Energy Transfer Partners. Ir. Although it is said to be the safest and most efficient way to transport crude oil
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get away with it‚ or would you fight for what is right? The Dakota Access Pipeline is said to be “the safest and most environmentally sensitive way to transport crude oil from domestic wells to American consumers” (Dakota Access Pipeline Facts). It’s a pipeline that was built under Lake Oahe‚ which is located upstream of the Sioux tribes’ land. It would also would save a lot of money and energy to transfer oil across the nation. The Dakota Access Pipeline should have been stopped because the Sioux
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The United States government possesses a long history of double-crossing Native Americans. The most recent event is the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline currently being protested by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters. Though the pipeline is more than halfway completed‚ protestor’s have held their ground since April of 2016‚ and show no sign of losing momentum. The tribe argues construction of the pipeline has already bulldozed into the sacred burial grounds of their ancestors
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being built to seize a way of lifestyle‚ a human right‚ and one whole community. The Dakota Access Pipeline‚ a 1‚200 mile undertaking‚ must not be built to recognize the battle that thousands of protestors are fighting‚ to benefit everyone. From a Native American’s eye‚ the horizon is decorated with a river and a culture he is a part of. This is now disturbed by the bulldozers parked‚ constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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controversies on the North Dakota pipeline‚ on whether or not it should be built. So should it rebuilt? Here are some reasons on why there are so many controversies. The Government wants to build on indian reservations‚ the risk of the pipeline breaking‚ and the possible jobs to build it. The Government wants to build on Indians reservations. The pipe line would run through a sacred burial ground. Also‚ it would run under a lake the tribe considers a crucial water source for them. The Dakota Access pipeline
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