Standing Rock and Imperialism Itself

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/08/standing-rock-and-imperialism-itself/
Date Written:  2016-11-08
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX20138

An article about the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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The Dakota Access Pipeline was originally scheduled to cross the state of North Dakota north of Bismarck, the state capital (pop. 70,000). But then the route was shifted 40 miles south, to the south, to pass by the Standing Rock Sioux reservation (pop. 8200). This is sovereign territory of the Sioux, whose reservation straddles North and South Dakota and whose members include Hunkpapa Lakota and Yaktonai Dakota.

The Sioux are a nation of about 170,000 people, divided linguistically into the Lakotas, Dakotas and Nakotas concentrated in what are now North and South Dakota. We know that there were some in what is now either Wisconsin or Minnesota in 1660 because French traders met them and recorded the encounter. They may have advanced into the Dakotas only after that.