Standing Rock and the Battle Beyond | Fault Lines

For months, Native Americans have been protesting against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, a multibillion-dollar construction project that tribal leaders say is threatening sacred sites as well as the tribe's source of drinking water.
Protests against the project have been growing since April. Since then, thousands of people, including tribes across the US, have joined historic demonstrations in support of the Sioux.
In December, the Obama administration handed them a victory, denying a final permit the company needed and saying different routes for the pipeline would be sought.
But the election of Donald Trump has cast doubt on that decision, and the company in charge of constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline says it isn't backing down.
Fault Lines examines the case against the pipeline, connecting it to other fights being waged by US tribes that have helped build the growing movement at Standing Rock.
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[@leecat9732]

I love you native American people! Your so special very important to this world guardians of water and earth! I pray for native American tribes. May Yahawah always bless give you strength, support, protection. Thank you! ❤️

[@dancingtree628]

I weep for what has been lost, and pray to save what remains. May we all walk in Beauty.

[@kishapotts6869]

Yes

[@prudence5320]

We are the Beautiful Representatives of our Beautiful Mother's gift of Life, our relationship with each other and the family of tribal ancestors will always prevail like that of The Great Spirit as a witness for all []

[@ocrunhiggs]

Thank You Al Jazeera!!!!!!!!!! Keep What Is Truth And Important Out There And At The Four Front We Forget All To Soon And Lose Out On Our Great Future We Make Together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@mrjohnson8511]

You guys are doing such a good job of exposing crimes against humanity keep it up. This is a crime thats been going on for to long

[@marymartini2839]

Mother Loves all of you

[@keely_cn8924]

Man, Al Jazeera how I've missed you. I'm so glad I can watch you again. I wish you could have made it in the US, we need good reporting now more than ever.

[@elizabethdevries8028]

Mni Wiconi! We stayed peaceful in the face of brutal attacks for many, many months. Long live Standing Rock.

[@Artdekadent]

It's scary to listen to ,the very disrespect for the earth and life itself is shoking :'( I Pray and Bless Your Journey for the beautiful history of your land will be told to all who don't understand but soon will understand it .

[@christinaironeyes]

I cry every time I see destruction of Our Mother Earth. I keep praying for everyone at Standing Rock My Family. :(

[@_TheShattered-NEWTONSTAR_]

Me too babe many many times we will prevail RISE

[@BFaluup]

Truth though that you use the products of it.. we all do. How will life be without it is the question

[@suatchaglan7446]

Tis it is sad Father Sun would be disappointed… I’m disappointed, I fear and weep for my seed

[@suatchaglan7446]

@@BFaluup it would be better… but if ur getting rid of phones may as well get rid of machines… if ur getting rid of machines may as get rid of metals… gain the skill of flint knapping and obsidian, natural hunter gatherer or natural civilisation is the true way… what a dream, and yet it’s within grasp, the roots are planted… FOR ME FOR MY CHILDREN FOR MY ANCESTORS

[@elizabethdevries8028]

@@BFaluup water is literally the basis of all man made items. It is the basis of life. Mni Wiconi is Lakota for 'water is life". Mni Wiconi is what we chanted every single day at camp because it is real. Life would cease to exist without clean water for every living thing but all of us on this planet can live without the products made with it. Never the less, our societies are built on machines so it's unrealistic to suggest we do away with all of them but it is reasonable to ask that all people be prudent in the use all machines. We must live in harmony rather than the mindset of conquer. Life would improve vastly if the entire planet dialed back on abuses of Mother...of Water. Balance and harmony.

[@mrmagoo8510]

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere." Martin Luther King You think you're safe, think again.

[@jr1019]

Thanks aljazeera . Solid reporting unlike the trash at Fox or CNN.

[@lilajaynep.4986]

I have no more tears*** ... i am just praying 4 the injustices ... of everyone and everything ... gifted to us as Indigenous PPls... globally .............. and will til my last breathe Here on Sacred Turtle Island...........highest.... honors/\ respects to the ones who are* awake* ....and doing the frontline work that Needs to Be done dayly... and esp...4 .... their families ...amr! Lila

[@JeanineH]

Thank you for sharing the People's side of the story

[@christinaironeyes]

I will always Stand for My Family the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe!

[@mkadi70]

We will all remember the words of the American Indian when the price of clean water will be 10 times the price of oil. But by then it would have been too late

[@stevenwilliamson3978]

Assiniboine Sioux and chippewa native American here and deeply upset 😡 about this and the water 💧 here in my hometown of billings montana saw oil in the water 💧 water is life!!!!

[@Firstthunder]

And the tears still come when I relive it. But we’re strong and the inter generational trauma stops with us. That’s what the Elders wish.

[@EugeneCHolly]

i STILL STAND WITH STANDING ROCK

[@vicm1533]

Man there just isnt any words, there really isnt. Wow. Just wow.

[@christinaironeyes]

Mni Wiconi!!

[@Yourismouter]

good report once again Al Jazeera English reporting on the plight and resistance of Indigenous people, well done!

[@mainerockflour3462]

The Middle East is fully knowledgeable about Rome's demands for tribute and obedience

[@RAddisonpeAce-WaRRioR]

Good Reporting--as peace-warrior, i dRove to there fRom WYoming in late fall 1996...asking permission to camp on the sacred-Rock, which overlooks the Missouri R. a windy outcrop...colder but not as misquitoes prone! Having been w A.I.M. 1968 thru 1977, i was not accepted until an apparition, appeared--the gReat spirit!

[@Firstthunder]

How I miss the huge community that we found there. To be among brothers and sisters, just to be in a place where it’s “okay” to be Indian.

[@reallydontcare9582]

I’m not native gosh I wish I could have even been born into a tribe to have the honor of being one amongst the people before there was anything, the tribe before them have been fighting for generations to keep what they have and y’all keep taking from them the lands and memories,

[@deadreckoning6288]

This is what good reporting looks like. Which makes quite clear which side the truth is on.

[@normster1000]

+DeadReckoning The truth is they drove to the protest, its a bit hypocritical to suggest they don't utilize the comforts of fossil fuels.

[@bernierodgers9409]

normster1000 fyi: this fuel is to be sent to China, not to benefit the Americans. look it up. u will see why they want this oil so bad. All in the name of 1 man's greed who supports the politicians. if u can't find it, let me know and I'll find it for ya and share.

[@normster1000]

Bernie Rodgers INFO Wars much? Dude get real.

[@dianabajo807]

Respect compassion prayer for the first people of this nation that has been abused for how long now. 21 century and the abuse continues by the so called civilized society. I wonder who the savages are. When will the parasites stop or control their greed. May be when they sucked the earth dry Clean water is for all people. Repect for the water protectors

[@carrieashley6465]

Iv try get people under stand shareing what happened to tribes at it can and will happen when rich want more and poor and mix people push out way like Sioux from isn't they nightmare alone it all of us

[@roxannegould2447]

Thank you Al Jazeera for your thorough and sensitive reporting.

[@juneribaldi7093]

Slay the #BlackSnake by Bank Exiting #DefundDAPL #BankEXIT best support you can do to #Standwithstandingrock #WaterisLife #MiniWiconi Thank you for this acurate report US media does not even cover this Important story So Thank you very much for reporting accurately .

[@kishapotts6869]

The black snake is real. It's a memory from those who lived a long time ago. I first heard about the black snake prophecy from my dad who heard it from his grandparents as a child. Who heard it from their grandparents. That makes it a thing that was heard over 120 years ago. Who knows how much longer. My dad n his parents thought it was the highways. My generation knows better now. I'm here watching this happen. So is my son. Yes the highways and railroads created bad things being built on bodies. But what is really ruining the earth and humanity beyond what any of us know any more?

[@ariadneschild8460]

Is there any update on this? Sorry I'm late to this story. My condolences to all involved.

[@bernierodgers9409]

thank you Al Jazeera for portraying this movement factually. Thank you.

[@arcticspirals]

So proud this was highlighted for protest. So inspired watching the support.

[@John-bk1ek]

Some people understand what this is about others are blind and don't care it's money not the land

[@Kabespir]

Thank you, Al Jazeera English! America's news channels aren't covering this!

[@Firstthunder]

Baamaapii LaDonna bah. Your spirit walked home, where your husband and relatives met you. Miigwetch Nokomis Ogitchida Kwe. Many of us found our purpose, connected to spirit, reclaimed love, and found true family. Maybe you’ll come to visit brother’s sweat lodge to visit one day.

[@thomasdaigene4223]

Even if you think his philosophies of lakes having spirits is utter bullsh*t, what right does anyone have to inflict and impede his culture and beliefs. Imagine if a foreign country abruptly took the White House or Mount Vernon, the Washington Cathedral. We gotta take an objective look at the conflict.

[@chuolbothmut6183]

Watching this video was just an another evidence that the world we live in is unjust.

[@kubajjaszi]

It is just like in the movie Avatar.

[@gummybear9466]

And ur just like a murder

[@mahpiyatanhan213]

Way to go DAPL Dave.

[@Firstthunder]

Guess they had to disturb the bones to awaken the spirit. Was the medicine of the bones themselves calling

[@peteworship2523]

Aho good one for all my brothers Aho

[@sher3571]

THAT Railroad Needs To Be Charged Per Car Over 25 They Were Allowed

[@JeanineH]

+AlJazeera English, we invite you to come to Canada to speak to Justin Trudeau regarding our own problems and fight to have the same type pipeline issues reported on here... The fight is not over for Dakota, for Native tribes all over the nation nor here in Canada ...& like the ending says, the big battle will be when Donald Trump takes office. It's not over til it's over.

[@darwine7343]

Go Trump, from North Dakota...........

[@billhale2532]

#notmypresident from Indiana

[@playerunknown7623]

Bill Hale to aww is trump living in your head also??😂😂

[@kenwiebe2706]

continue.

[@sunnonaselwyn1553]

No amount of money can pay for the action on our Ancestors

[@user-qp6ni4zn7g]

Mini Wiconi!

[@vf12497439]

My problem with all of this is these sacred burial sites that no one knew about before this event. My grandfather is buried on BLM land that at one time was private property. His grave site is registered with the state and federal government. By federal law access to the site has to be maintained for family and friends to visit. I forget the exact measurements for the easement but nothing can legally disturb his gravesite. Why haven't these people registered their ancestors grave sites that are off Rez? Lesson for any tribe now is to start the legal process to get these locations registered before it comes to a he said she said argument.

[@susanallan9656]

Ltd will never sir come to a massacre. Trust me if they could have it would have been done already. Donald Trump needs to be educated this is why he will need many guides and body guards. This is me just watching it all unfold for the Natives and Donald Trump.

[@mattmar9328]

The love of money is the root of all evil

[@LouisPhilip9]

The moral of this story is... never trust the government tyrants !

[@brianar3606]

Really beautiful piece of land. I would hope its not destroyed for this pipeline.

[@mainerockflour3462]

What has happened since?

[@samwenske]

Just like Wet'suwet'en in British Columbia

[@prudence5320]

And yet we still stand [] The WORLD 🌎 is watching the abomination.

[@Star1320Light]

"how do we tell our kids?"

[@sunnonaselwyn1553]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@John-bk1ek]

Know people care it's more than money

[@mosimosi630]

God until when 😢😢😢

[@christinaironeyes]

(The Governor resigned before his term ended so the Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors & the The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe could sue him for the brutal attacks on My People/Family)!!

[@Orf]

7:48 Dogs coming

[@John-bk1ek]

Take Take Take is all theGov know s

[@peterandall4all900]

Trees can grow right through pipes. And any oil on YOUR Land, is YOURS, right?? There are many ways to kill snakes.

[@RaySmith79]

look how they treated these people and then go back and look how the police treated those guys that had guns and wanted to control government land.

[@juneribaldi7093]

#NoDAPL #WaterIsLife Support #WaterProtectors by Exiting your bank #BankEXIT #DefundDAPL #standwithstandingrock #NoDAPLSolidarity #MiniWiconi #SacredStone www,sacredstonecamp.org see supply's needed Thank you

[@mwsattva9293]

June ribaldi was

[@thynkGaming939]

the fed the gov the billion dollar companies dont care what they damage if it going to make them a buck, so so sad!

[@normster1000]

Al Jazeera shitbags want Americans to buy oil from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. Interesting enough, they show little empathy for displaced Syrian refuges but seem to have a soft spot for the plight of Native Americans ?????

[@Orf]

7:29 No DAPL sign with flags

[@christianaeweto1640]

Animals in uniform and carrying weapons

[@uyd]

This is an example of why our votes, our educated, intelligent, votes mater. Why on earth wouldn't Trump approve the route of this pipeline, he's invested in it!!!# Had Hillary gotten in she likely would have made them change the route of this pipeline....now?

[@marjoriemurphy9424]

david eisenbud that depends on wetter or not Energy Transfer Partners gave her a pay off, which is what convinces Hillary,

[@northerncaliforniachicanof4249]

Take me back to the days when we didn't need $ to feel welthy. Back to the 🐢 Turtle Island days.

[@jonicollins673]

Princesd

[@jonicollins673]

Princess

[@mamasaid187]

People are sick n not just Indians.

[@jonicollins673]

Jonileecollins

[@jonicollins673]

Shoshonijon Train

[@jonicollins673]

The first

[@johnandrews3547]

C'mon people, look at who is producing this. Al Jazeera. Next.

[@silaschew6369]

We can carry tv and a computer and a phone all in one hand but we’re still running of whale blubber

[@CanadaBlue]

Bullies>>

[@b.b.4411]

A small minority doesn't dictate whats best for the majority! #DrillBabyDrill

[@tsegithunder]

last name says a coward White Supremacist

[@mkadi70]

I wonder if you would the same thing if they told you they will be drilling under your own church or the graveyards of your ancestors, without your permission, after they have taken your country from you and slaughtered your own people until you became a minority in your own land. I understand the story of the American Indian and salute their bravery for I am not as brave as they.

[@mildredmoore92]

dese r #stolenlandsUSA sincerely

[@killthecensors58]

I have a question for American Indian nationalists. I am a European nationalist and I instinctively sympathize with American Indians wanting to control what happens on THEIR OWN land. However I have yet to encounter a single instance of an American Indian standing up for MY right to exist. So forgive me if I am less than eager to stand up for your right to exist. So my question for you is, given that many of your fellow nationalists actively belittle and degrade my right to exist, why should I do anything for you? I will grant you that historically, our two people have been adversaries. But if you will not change, why would you expect us to change? If you continue to treat us as enemies, why would you expect us to treat you as friends?

[@antoniog.7069]

You can't really blame natives for feeling the way they do about Europeans especially considering the long history of mistreatment & deceit they and their ancestors have endured due to white oppression. They're still being treated poorly by whites to this very day all across the nation. More & more of their land keeps getting either desecrated or taken - or both. Their culture is ignored with many Europeans actually encouraging the riddance of indigenous culture in favor of assimilation. Those left on reservations are poverty-stricken due to insufficient funding from the government. Not to mention the fact that many cold-hearted whites try to capitalize on native misery by opening liquor stores near their reservations so they can reel them into becoming regulars who drink themselves to death because of depression stemming from the oppression they still receive today. Natives' ancestral homelands - including lands that they should be the rightful owners of as a result of treaty negotiations; lands that have traditionally sacred sites including graves - are still being desecrated by buildings, factories, railroads, etc... The modern-day native is forced to live life the way the U.S. government wants them to - natives can no longer live like they used to, hunt like they used to, and many have been displaced far away from their homelands on unfamiliar lands that are useless for cultivation so they can no longer grow plants like they used to. If I experienced both the past & modern-age history that the natives experienced, I myself would probably be reluctant to fight for European rights in lands that they themselves stole - many of whom who had ancestors that are known for deceit & mistreatment towards natives, so if their ancestors were like that then their descendants can surely inherit their ways as well, and many of them clearly have with how the native oppression continues into this day & age - so the better question is, who can a native actually trust? Not to mention the criticism that natives themselves would receive from other natives for fighting for the rights of a group of people that have stolen their land & oppressed them for years. With all the neglect & under-appreciation natives & their culture have endured, its no wonder why they don't want to fight for white rights in this stolen land. They don't feel appreciated, wanted or loved - and there's really no justifiable reason for this type of treatment towards them. Would *you* be happy to fight for the rights of a people that have a history of invading your land, desecrating it, taking it, killing off much of your people's population, and still deliberately mistreat you to this day? The very people that killed off your culture and prohibit you from living the way your ancestors lived? I'm not saying that I won't fight for the rights of Europeans in this country, as they are also my people on my father's side - but natives are also my people on my mother's side as well, and I take into consideration their feelings & experiences. Europeans have human rights, but so do natives; especially in their homelands.

[@hydro96u]

Do you think of the land as living entity, then it's all you, we do, that's our church, douchebag.

[@killthecensors58]

@@antoniog.7069 You raise a fair argument. I certainly can understand Native distrust of Whites. I hope that someday we can both get along. I believe that it would be a tragic loss for humility to see your culture assimilated into non-existence. That's wrong.

[@RAddisonpeAce-WaRRioR]

Good Reporting--as peace-warrior, i dRove to there fRom WYoming in late fall 1996...asking permission to camp on the sacred-Rock, which overlooks the Missouri R. a windy outcrop...colder but not as misquitoes prone! Having been w A.I.M. 1968 thru 1977, i was not accepted until an apparition, appeared--the gReat spirit!