Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline: Native American Perspectives: Background: Historical and Current

Tuck, Eve (Aleut) and K. Wayne Yang. 2012. “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor.”
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, Society 1(1): 1-40.

Blackhawk, Ned (Western Shoshone). 2014. “Remember the Sand Creek Massacre.” New
York Times, November 27, 2014.

Ostler, Jeffrey. 2016. “‘Just and Lawful War’” as Genocidal War in the (United States)
Northwest Ordinance and Northwest Territory, 1787–1832.” Journal of Genocide
Research 18(1): 1-20.

Leeds, Stacy L (Cherokee). 2005. “By Eminent Domain or Some Other Name: A Tribal
Perspective on Taking Land.” Tulsa Law Review 41(1): 51-77

Coulthard, Glen (Yellowknives Dene). 2013. “For Our Nations to Live, Capitalism Must
Die.” Unsettling America: Decolonizing Theory and Practice, November 5, 2013.

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The #StandingRockSyllabus with readings included.

Scan of treaty from April 4, 1868 from the National Archives. Critics say the Dakota Access Pipeline violates Article II of this treaty.

The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific working for the Sovereignty and Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands.

Summary of Section 106 which pertains to consultation of tribes in identifying cultural sites of importance. Section 106 is mentioned in the District Court motion to deny the injunction to stop work on the pipeline filed 9/9/16.

Statement on the Dakota Access Pipeline (North Dakota, USA) by Mr. Alvaro Pop Ac, Chair of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and Dr. Dalee Dorough and Chief Edward John, Expert Members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

The materials in this repository include information by and about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Most materials were published by USACE, but some collections contain materials by other government agencies written about USACE. All content is contributed by offices throughout USACE.

This guide is designed to assist the scholar or student researching the law of the United States as it pertains to the American Indian. Although some of the included resources relate to American Indian tribal law, the focus of the guide is on US law, its doctrinal evolution, and related issues arising from the unique historical relationships of the federal and state governments to American Indian tribes.

Water problems on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, on oversight hearing to received [i.e. receive] testimony on problems that have been experienced by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and tribes situated along the Missouri River, November 18, 2004,

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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Litigation on the Dakota Access Pipeline - Includes Court Documents