Standing Rock DAPL: 2016 - Most People Missed This - Dennis Banks Narrates
Channel: Jaguar Bird
Date: 2018-01-10

This is a collection of various audio & video segments from the 2016 protest in Standing Rock, Dakota...combined with a 2017 interview from our late Elder & Grandfather Dennis Banks (Nimishoomis Nowa Cumin)..  

Hopefully..., some of this footage I've collected and shared helps some people to see for themselves, what really transpired... and how it all escalated from an un-authorized.. and un-neccesary digging of Sacred Burial Grounds..

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The Dakota Access Pipeline protests, also known by the hashtag #NODAPL, are grassroots movements that began in early 2016 in reaction to the approved construction of Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access Pipeline in the northern United States. The pipeline was projected to run from the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota to southern Illinois, crossing beneath the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, as well as under part of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. 

Many in the Standing Rock tribe considered the pipeline and its intended crossing of the Missouri River to constitute a threat to the region's clean water and to ancient burial grounds. In April 2016, Standing Rock Sioux elder LaDonna Brave Bull Allard established a camp as a center for cultural preservation and spiritual resistance to the pipeline; over the summer the camp grew to thousands of people.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had conducted a limited review of the route and found no significant impact, but in March and April 2016 the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Interior, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation asked the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a formal Environmental Impact Assessment and issue an Environmental Impact Statement. 

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed suit against the Corps of Engineers in July, but the motion was denied. In December, under President Barack Obama's administration the Corps of Engineers denied an easement for construction of the pipeline under the Missouri River. An environmental impact assessment was to be conducted by the Army Corps, but many protesters continued camping on the site, not considering the matter closed.

 On January 24, 2017, newly elected President Donald Trump signed an executive order that reversed the Obama legislation and advanced the construction of the pipeline under "terms and conditions to be negotiated, " expediting the environmental review that Trump described as an "incredibly cumbersome, long, horrible permitting process." 

On February 7, 2017, Trump authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed, ending the environmental impact assessment and the associated public comment period. The pipeline was completed by April and its first oil was delivered
 on May 14, 2017.
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 I claim no ownership of any of the clips, video, music and words expressed in this video...and employ my borrowing of them with much respect and thanks.  Credits are given at the end of the video.

No personal monetization is being done with this video, by me..., nor am I receiving any other benefits from any of this video..  It is meant for all.., to heal, teach, discuss, inspire and inform...and share.

Fair use policy applies for all  material used in this video.

I thank ...Nimishoomis Naawakamig (in Spirit).., the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe...; Empire Files..; Nci LaDonna Bravebull Allard..; Democracy Now..; ABC...; the Sacred Stone Camp...; everyone who participated in peaceful protest .... and all the other brothers and sisters who have made beautiful music... and saved some great photo & video moments of Standing Rock.... It is because of you.., that the truth has been captured and shared.. Nothing is over... There are more on-going, pipeline projects.. 
Mother Earth needs us..

Many Blessings/ Philamayaye / Thanks / Chi Miigwetch!....

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