Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Told to Leave by Dec. 5

“They are clearly going to deny the protesters the right to emergency treatment so this is a way of protecting the state from any civil liabilities, specifically”, Cook told NBC News.

If completed, the pipeline will run over 470,000 barrels of crude oil per day through the sacred lands. You see the hashtag, #MniWiconi.

Standing Rock tribal members and other Native Americans believe the land with the encampment is rightly owned by the Sioux through a more than century-old treaty with the US government. While President Obama keeps a watchful eye on the Dakota Pipeline Access controversy, he has not made any firm statements for either side.

With winter looming, the Corps has chose to close the land north of the Cannonball River where the Oceti Sakowin protest encampment have flourished on December 5, also citing the confrontations between protesters and authorities, according to a letter Archambault said he received. They maintain that they have been peaceful, but last week things turned violent.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says construction of the pipeline – which is now slated to run under the Missouri River – could affect its drinking water supply and put communities living downstream “at risk for contamination by crude oil leaks and spills”. “If we can show solidarity from many miles away, than maybe other individuals can also have the courage to stand in support of Standing Rock”.

“Now we’re adults in our spirituality”, Young said.

The $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline would run almost 1,200 miles from North Dakota to IL.

The news comes as central North Dakota faces a winter storm warning, which includes eight to 13 inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service.

Henderson added that the Corps has already established a “free speech zone” on land south of the river for protestors to gather and “peaceably protest the Dakota Access pipeline project”.

It is unclear how, if or when the USACE intends to enforce “unauthorized” camping at the site.

“What is happening at Standing Rock is a movement that has captured the attention of the entire country”, Reid said Monday on the Senate floor.

The pipeline being built does not go through Native American lands.

“Workers do not feel safe there”, he said.

Mr Petronzio urged demonstrators to remember that they are not on vacation and to help by carrying supplies and speak to the elders who are “pillars of this community”. Hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested or injured during clashes with police and private security, who have used tear gas and guard dogs.

A camp near the Standing Rock reservation.

“I don’t think it will ever be an eviction where forces just come in and push people out”, Archambault said. “We can’t live without water, and for Christian people, the image of water in relation to Jesus is very important”.

A delegation from the American Humanists Association also visited the camp this month.

Protesters held a pipe ceremony, Gabriel said, so that their prayers would be heard.

Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier says he won’t “allow people to become unlawful”. The judge isn’t likely to issue a decision until January at the earliest. But tribal councilman Yellow Fat said the Standing Rock Sioux’s action will end in the same way it began. (Joye Braun, Indigeonous Environmental Network) “It’s pretty presumptuous for the Army Corps of engineers to assume that they can evict us off of our own land”.