A protest against a four-state, $3.8billion oil pipeline turned violent on Saturday after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed Native American burial and cultural sites on private land in southern North Dakota.
Morton County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey said four private security guards and two guard dogs were injured after several hundred protesters confronted construction crews at the site just outside the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.
One of the security officers was taken to a Bismarck hospital for undisclosed injuries. The two guard dogs were taken to a Bismarck veterinary clinic, Preskey said.
Tribe spokesman Steve Sitting Bear said protesters reported that six people had been bitten by security dogs, including a young child. At least 30 people were pepper-sprayed, he said. Preskey said law enforcement authorities had no reports of protesters being injured.
There were no law enforcement officials at the site when the incident occurred, Preskey said. The crowd disbursed when officers arrived and no one was arrested, she said.
The incident occurred within half a mile of an encampment where hundreds of people have gathered to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest of the oil pipeline that is slated to cross the Missouri River nearby.
The tribe is challenging the Army Corps of Engineers' decision to grant permits for Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access pipeline, which crosses the Dakotas and Iowa into Illinois, including near the reservation in southern North Dakota.
A federal judge will rule before September 9 whether construction can be halted on the Dakota Access pipeline.
How do these people just blatantly do this shit without any consequences at all? ANYTHING. Even just a slap on the wrist would indicate that they're trying to hide this shit.
Jack Anderson
People just don't care about Native Americans. They're more concerned about stupid shit like what bathrooms people can use.
Wyatt Murphy
HIPPIES BTFO TEXAS TEA 4EVR BB
Oliver Carter
The guy in the other thread seems to have the right idea. >>>/baph/483
Aiden Taylor
Evidence for any of this?
They moved a little bit of topsoil. Who fucking cares?
These "cairns" never existed and if they're so concerned then why don't they make a pile of their own rocks?
Luke Taylor
To be fair, it's not like the news is talking about this at all. I doubt normalfags even know indians still exist.
This tbh.
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Aaron Martin
what happened to the other pipeline threads?
anyway, OP is a faggot for calling environmentalists and people who don't want their land stolen "patriots", lol.
so is this the thread the spam is trying to hide or is it one of the others? i gotta shower, someone else check the old threads please.
Bentley Turner
yesterday i learned that you don't have to contribute to bump something. bump.
Cooper Taylor
Computers, mobile phones and cars are also made using "conflict" rare earth minerals. Let's stop making those, too, so that Al Gore can continue to take hot showers.
Owen Hernandez
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Parker Taylor
Heh.
This wouldn't happen if they are nignogs.
I hate idpol but even I'll admit Native Americans are the most marginalised existence.
Logan Moore
what exactly do you think "idpol" even means
Lincoln Ross
I don't get why the focus here is so amerocentric. I bet way more gruesome shit is going on in the first world every day.
Julian Young
moved through half the catalog in one day. bump to piss off the porkies.
How much revolutionary potential would you all say there is among the tribal cultures of North America? You'd think that they would have a vested interest in fighting back against the capitalist establishment given the degree to which they've been exploited and marginalized, but I know that locally as well there's also quite a bit of a collaborationist streak in band and tribal leadership, especially with the hereditary chiefdoms and whatnot where there's very little democratic oversight.
Thomas Turner
i have no idea but i imagine that there would be powerful counter-propaganda that says if indians start a revolution then murricans will take over their casinos. do all indian tribes have casinos and thus a vested interest in the capitalist system that drives addicts to their shiny machines?
Julian Anderson
No, quite a few communities are very economically marginal and don't have much in the way of industry at all. Up here in Canada it's particularly bad in some places that don't even have indoor plumbing in the majority of homes. Even the ones that have huge oil and natural resources payouts for each member don't have it that much better in terms of poverty. And there's huge substance abuse and gang problems on the same scale as with American Blacks.
Nathaniel Walker
Unfortunately this has become one of those "safe ways to rebel". Look at all the famous fuckers that have pledged support. The media has turned this into an idpol issue, when it didn't have to be.
America has some guilt still from the way we fucked them up back in the day. And since the objective is outwardly to "protect these tribal burial lands" it becomes a way to virtue signal. Obviously I support them, but imagine if they said "we're fighting against capitalism" instead of "we're fighting to protect our land". How much support would they get?
Thomas Rivera
yeah well the OP is maybe some "patriotism" idpol bs but in other news emphasis is put on the environment and their health and that it could poison their drinking water, etc. which are all legit arguments and have nothing to do with idpol. pretty sure those indians and those who support them aren't one big hivemind.
Jackson Wilson
wasn't that "burial grounds" stuff just the only argument they could use in court because courts say that all pipelines are safe and never have accidents?
