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Wells Fargo is only one of many local banks that support the Dakota Access Pipeline, including JP Morgan Chase, Citzens Bank, CitiBank, Comerica Bank and U.S. Bank. “The relationships that have built between the state and members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe are important, and will continue to be important long after the pipeline issue is resolved”. The gathering concluded with a call for everyone to spread the word to friends and family and to stand behind the indigenous people in their struggle against the pipeline. The pipeline construction should end before it even reaches the Missouri River to avoid contaminating a large portion of the US water supply.

Thousands of miles of pipelines already crisscross the US, he said, arguing pipelines remain a safe method for transporting oil. Interfering in the pipeline would look bad, even for a politician who has shown little concern with mixing his private interests with official business, and Trump should expect a backlash if he pushes fossil fuel development too hard from the outset of his presidency, activists say.

“We were so moved by the native people and what their goals and purposes were that we immediately decided we’ve got to go back”.

Despite occasional violence, Redwind said the struggle at Oceti has focused on prayer and peace.

“[People’s] prayers are a lot more powerful than they think”, he said. “It shouldn’t be thought of as anything other than that”. In a release Wednesday, the Lake County Sheriff’s Department said officers have been sent in the past for natural disasters such as to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and they were briefly in North Dakota to help with a personnel shortage.

“How many law enforcement agencies does it take to subdue a peaceful protest?” “This is our land and they can’t remove us”, protester Isaac Weston, who is an Oglala Sioux member from South Dakota, told The Associated Press.

According to the Bismarck Tribune, “The Monday evacuation order said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land on which a large majority of the protesters are camping isn’t safe for winter dwelling”.

In a letter, Stanek said North Dakota made an “urgent” request for assistance on October 18. But if you want to. throw these words out like “negotiate with the tribe” and “compromise with the tribe” – I’m not speaking for the tribe, clearly; this is just from an objective outsider’s point of view – but they’ve negotiated for 500 years, and they’ve compromised for 500 years.

Ms Parker said it was unconstitutional to have tax dollars paying to militarise police.

North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has issued an evacuation order for the sprawling campsite where Native Americans from many tribes have gathered to protect sacred lands and the region’s water supply.

For many visitors, the cold has been the most hard part of being at Oceti, with wind chill dipping to single-digit temperatures. The resolve of both locals and many volunteers has remained unchanged.

“The treatment that the Lakota people are receiving right now, the treatment that the water protectors are getting, the mistreatment, that’s inhumane”, Sam told the television station. We are going to be disciplined. “Hopefully it will raise questions for people, and start a conversation”, she said.