ENSC 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Groundwater Recharge, Distributary, Embodied Energy
15 Feb 2017
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Standing rock indian reservation is located in north dakota and south dakota. Dakota and lakota peoples from the sioux nation. Long history of colonial development displacing people and ruining the land and waterways. Long history of resistance to colonial violence - including little big horn (1876), the massacre of wounded knee (1890) and the wounded knee. Today standing rock is the site of the protest against the dakota access. Protest camp established april 2016; several sister camps. September 2016 - representatives of 300 indigenous tribes plus thousands of allies, including over 4000 us soldiers gather in opposition. Lost of police violence, arrests, injury and human rights violations. Missouri river is longest river in north america. Missouri river watershed includes about 1/4 th of all agricultural land in the. Providing more than 1/3 of wheat, flax, barley and oats. Food system relies on missouri river for some irrigation, water for animal production, food industry etc. production, food industry etc.
