Tribe calls for pipeline opponents to boycott Bismarck

Police use of water cannons to turn the group back has sparked outrage as the temperature dropped below freezing level on Sunday night.

“Almost the entire camp was in shock”, Salim Matt Gras, 64, of Hamilton, Montana, said at the main camp.

To all those peacefully protesting to protect history, to protect that which is personally sacred and to protect our life sustaining water sources, we are here shoulder to shoulder with you across this country.

The Tribe’s opposition to the company’s project, which began in April, has resulted in clashes with authorities and numerous arrests.

The Individual Camps at Standing RockOceti Sakowin Camp, the largest of the camps, maintains an updated supply list for those who wish to bring or send items and accepts cash donations via PayPal or by postal mail: Oceti Sakowin Camp, P.O. Box 298, Cannon Ball, North Dakota 58528. Her family says she is facing multiple surgeries in an attempt to save the limb.

Injuries sustained by Sophia Wilansky, 21, of NY prompted thousands of people to donate money for her recovery, which was underway at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.

A NY woman who suffered a serious arm injury while protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota is still recovering in a Minneapolis hospital.

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There is still no official timeline for approval of the project.

Henderson’s letter said the Corps has set up a free speech zone on land south of the river.

On November 14, final approval was delayed again for additional consultation. It said the delays were part of a “sham process”.

The company behind the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, says that it has taken measures to prevent such leaks, that the pipeline is far safer than transporting oil with trucks or trains and that there is no archaeological significance to the area.

According to Time Magazine, there is a real possibility the pipeline could leak into the Missouri River if completed and utilized. She added that medics first encountered the injured woman at a casino near the protests. “This incident remains under investigation by the North Dakota BCI and ATF”.

Activists say they are using the “media drones” to watch law enforcement and the pipeline construction sites, while the sheriff said the operators “continue to violate federal regulations by using drones to harass and surveil law enforcement, endangering those below the device”.

At one, protesters built a small wooden bridge across a creek to a place where burial sites are located.

“Today is Thanksgiving and I can not help but reflect on our history in these United States and how often it has not lived up to the rosy picture of Pilgrims and Indians sharing a meal in friendly company that I saw in textbooks as a child”, Heinrich said in a statement.

John DeCarlo, associate professor of criminal justice at the University of New Haven in CT, said the state needs to take a more active stance or the situation could deteriorate.

The group then began their march to the Halifax Commons so they could create and take an aerial photograph of a human hashtag for the #NoDAPL movement. “Marking people with numbers and detaining them in overcrowded cages, on the bare concrete floor, without being provided with medical care, amounts to inhuman and degrading treatment”, he said.

“KBIC will have a sacred fire to pray with Standing Rock at the Ojibwa Seniors Center from 4 to 6 p.m. on Saturday”, said Rodney Loonsfoot, KBIC member, veteran and candidate for tribal council.