Lucas, on Sunday, December 4, the Army Corps of Engineers
announced a delay in further construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, using the
time to conduct an environmental impact statement of alternative routes.
For the better part of the year, the Standing Rock Sioux and representatives
of more than 300 other tribes, and their non-Native Water Protectors put
their bodies on the line to oppose building the pipeline through ancestral
Sioux lands and under the Missouri River, which is the drinking water
supply for the reservation and 17 million other Americans.
While Sunday's announcement brought a reprieve,we know the struggle is not over. And we will continue to stand with Indigenous
communities, whatever the next phase of this fight brings. Nevertheless, the Army’s decision is a clear, hard won victory for
the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Victories, even if tentative, deserve celebration, and the victors who
made it happen deserve to be honored.
Click here to send a thank you letter to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
and all the Water Protectors for providing leadership and holding line
against the Dakota Access pipeline.
Keep fighting,
Neeta Lind aka navajo
Director of Community, Daily Kos