Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline: Native American Perspectives: Tribal, National, and International Organizations

The Dakota Access Pipeline would directly impact the land and culture of the Standing Rock Sioux people. Find press releases on the DAPL and information about the tribe and their history.

Site by Standing Rock Sioux youth who oppose the pipeline. The group was instrumental in sharing information about this issue outside their community. #rezpectourwater

Includes recent news from the camp.

Timeline

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Democracy Now! coverage of resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. If completed, the $3.8 billion pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield to Illinois. The project has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and members of nearly 100 more tribes from across the U.S. and Canada.

IEN is an alliance of Indigenous People whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation maintaining and respecting Indigenous Teachings & Natural Laws.

Resources from the National Congress of American Indians.

The NYC Stands for Standing Rock committee is a group of Indigenous scholars and activists, and settler/ POC supporters. We belong and are responsible to a range of Indigenous peoples and nations, including Tlingit, Haudenosaunee, Secwepemc, St’at’imc, Creek (Muscogee), Anishinaabe, Peoria, Diné, Maya Kaqchikel, and Quechua. We have joined forces to support the Standing Rock Sioux in their continued assertion of sovereignty over their traditional territories.

Defending the rights of South Dakota's Native American families.

Exposing the epidemic of illegal seizures of Lakota children by the state of South Dakota.

Working towards the structural solution to end this injustice and bring our children home: tribal foster care programs.

Mississippi Stand is a group of concerned citizens who are working to end the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and protect the Mississippi River.

From the UN Division for Social Policy and Development of Indigenous Peoples.