Native American Pipeline Research Paper

In Cannon Ball, North Dakota there’s a land called Standing Rock Sioux reservation and that’s where the USACE wants to put a pipeline in. The Standing Rock Sioux reservation is a Native American sacred and burial ground. The Native Americans don’t want them putting the pipeline in because, it’ll contaminate their clean water and bother the people who were buried there. At first, the pipeline wasn’t a big deal and then the USACE wouldn’t cooperate and the THPO sued them which caused a very big problem. Once this problem started, it started to grow into a very, very huge deal and endangered people’s lives.
On February 2, 2015 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is the federal government body in charge of the nation’s waterways, sent a letter
September ninth, will be the deciding day whether or not they will continue construction. More than one hundred Native American tribes have came to protest this situation, some are saying it’s the largest Native American protest ever. Many protesters are being arrested for trespassing and for spraying painting the bulldozers. The Governor, Jack Dalrymple called the North Dakota National Guard, to minimize the arrests and to control more people. “District Judge James Boasberg denies the Standing Rock Sioux’s injunction request, allowing for construction to continue”(Sammon). What was their reason for denying the injunction request to stop construction? One of their reasons was probably all the Native American tribes coming and trespassing and spray-painting all over the bulldozers. A problem with this decision is that it’ll draw more people in to protest, causing more work for the USACE and the National Guard. Why does the pipeline have to go through the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, couldn’t the USACE move it over, so the pipeline could go through another land. They are not allowing construction to go on in the Lake Oahe area, which is near the protesters. All construction in a twenty-mile radius of