Just Updated this with a bunch of tweets
"People arrested, construction moving ahead as police protect the oil company! " Shame!! Shame!!
Hau we are the Inyan wakankagapi otip-Sacred Stone Camp from the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. We have partnership with the Oectc
Sakowin- Seven Council Fires, Indians and Cowboys and anyone who was to
stand with us against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
This pipeline will
cross the Missouri River and Cannon Ball River which is the life line to
many tribes and non native, when this pipeline leaks it will destroy
the water and land. Water is life ! So this pipeline is along the
Missouri River and the KL pipeline was along the Ogall aquifer both are
important to save.
We are asking for financial support for
water-propane - food and blankets for the camp. This is a prayer camp
movement to save our sacred land and water and has been entirely
supported by the people and the campers. We are in great appreciation
for all you contributions....Wopila lila tanka-- we are deeply grateful
for you contributions thank you!
In Spirit
Sacred Stone Camp
https://www.gofundme.com/sacredstonecamp
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dakota/
Archaeological evidence indicates that the Dakota (Sioux) occupied what
is now western Ontario and eastern Manitoba prior to 1200 AD, and
western Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan prior to 900 AD. These
populations later withdrew to the drainage basins of the Red,
Mississippi and Rainy rivers, where they were located when first
contacted by
Pierre Radisson in 1659. Read more
here
Some links :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Territory
North Dakota’s Oil Boom Brings Damage Along With Prosperity
"The downside is waste — lots of it. Companies produce millions of
gallons of salty, chemical-infused wastewater, known as brine, as part
of drilling and fracking each well. Drillers are supposed to inject this
material thousands of feet underground into disposal wells, but some of
it isn't making it that far.
According to data obtained by ProPublica, oil companies in North Dakota
reported more than 1,000 accidental releases of oil, drilling wastewater
or other fluids in 2011, about as many as in the previous two years
combined. Many more illicit releases went unreported, state regulators
acknowledge, when companies dumped truckloads of toxic fluid along the
road or drained waste pits illegally."
https://thinkprogress.org/north-dakota-hillside-seeps-oil-bd42be2eeeda#.yt05swj9j
The DAPL is a proposed crude pipeline which crosses treaty territories, threatening the Missouri River, impacting immediately Cannonball, ND of the SRST
"An oil leak
in North Dakota is seeping from a hillside and is thousands of gallons
larger than initially reported last month, state officials say. About
504 barrels of oil or more than 20,000 gallons of the highly polluting
substance have been recovered since the line leak occurred July 19, the
North Dakota Department of Health
said in a press release Friday.
https://thinkprogress.org/north-dakota-hillside-seeps-oil-bd42be2eeeda#.yt05swj9j
"
In North Dakota, people vs. oil pipeline protest strengthens
The irony of this...corporations polluting the water supply for millions and they are suing the protesters.
"Developers of a $3.8 billion, four-state oil pipeline are asking a federal judge to order protesters in North Dakota to stop interfering with the project."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dakota-access-pipeline-owners-sue-north-dakota-protesters-41400325
North Dakota Law Enforcement Just Moved Into A Native American Pipeline Protest
On Thursday, Sioux tribe members continued for a second day to
block
workers at a Bakken pipeline construction site near where the
Cannonball and Missouri rivers meet, prompting law enforcement to move
in. This is an escalation from months of “spirit camp”
protests — camps where tribe members pray as a group for hours at a time."
http://www.sacredstonecamp.org/
https://www.facebook.com/ienearth/
Posted 15hrs ago-
Tomorrow
can we start a prayer chain from sunrise to sunset every hour on the
hour? Please pray for the water and land and protection of our people...
We are asking you to do this! Especially while we are on the site.. We
are going to need your help...it's going to be a hard day so please pray
with us!
