ANTH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pipeline Transport, Leslie Spier, Native American Religion
10 Apr 2017
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Building oil pipeline through native american reserves, sacred burial places. Obama put a stop to it, trump wants to continue. Current war is defensive: to protect water and land from spoliation in name of profit. Many sioux see the pipeline as prophesied by black elk in the 1890s (an oglala lakota. Sioux) and more than 150s years ago, it"s the seventh generation"s responsibility to fight back. Settlements wouldn"t be directly affected by project unless the pipeline leaks which would make their water supply unsafe. This is a direct threat to sovereignty (they want to control what happens on their land, not be told what to do) The un on standing rock (can"t actually enforce anything on us) Formally asking the us to stop the construction on the pipeline. Poses a significant risk to the drinking water of the standing rock sioux tribe . Tribe was denied access to information and excluded from consultation.
