A group of several veterans traveled to the site the weekend before the Army Corps announced a nonviolent effort to protect the water protectors. United Nations human rights observers, as well as observers from Amnesty International, attended the meeting to document law enforcement's treatment of protesters. There is of course much, much more going on than I can cover here but hopefully this will be a good start. Below is a brief video of the Standing Rock Tribal Chairman laying out his case on the national news I saved a video from before the election earlier this year to help explain why locals thought it was important to oppose.
Maria Hinojosa's Humanizing America series interview with tribal rights attorney Tara Hauska. It's less than six minutes. More News The Battle for the North Dakota Oil Pipeline Who’s Fighting and Why An August New York Times article philippines photo editor lays out the basics I found an article from High Country News informative Back to Civics Lesson Things to Know About Standing Rock One The conservative organization founded fifty years ago aims to measure the civic literacy of American society. It demonstrates this by giving ordinary citizens the same test that immigrants take to apply for U.S. citizenship. When college graduates and elected politicians took the test last year, the average score among those who failed was. The worst performers had an average score of being elected as a politician. It’s time for a crash course in federalism and representative democracy.
Before we allow Standing Stone to explode into Wounded Knee, we would all do well to stop and think about the important lessons we should learn in our basic citizenship classes. The New York City Standing Together with Standing Rock syllabus takes a deep dive into this syllabus project that helps and Substantial work underway to counter construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens traditional pipelines and treaty-guaranteed Great Sioux territory. The pipeline violates the Treaty of Fort Laramie and the 2016 U.S. Treaty of Fort Laramie, as well as recent U.S. environmental regulations. the same environmental and human hazards as pipelines and would transport fracked crude oil from the Bakken field in North Dakota and connect to existing pipelines in Illinois. Also from Highland News Misleading Archaeological Review Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline Traditional cultural properties in the United States can often .
Maria Hinojosa's Humanizing America series interview with tribal rights attorney Tara Hauska. It's less than six minutes. More News The Battle for the North Dakota Oil Pipeline Who’s Fighting and Why An August New York Times article philippines photo editor lays out the basics I found an article from High Country News informative Back to Civics Lesson Things to Know About Standing Rock One The conservative organization founded fifty years ago aims to measure the civic literacy of American society. It demonstrates this by giving ordinary citizens the same test that immigrants take to apply for U.S. citizenship. When college graduates and elected politicians took the test last year, the average score among those who failed was. The worst performers had an average score of being elected as a politician. It’s time for a crash course in federalism and representative democracy.
Before we allow Standing Stone to explode into Wounded Knee, we would all do well to stop and think about the important lessons we should learn in our basic citizenship classes. The New York City Standing Together with Standing Rock syllabus takes a deep dive into this syllabus project that helps and Substantial work underway to counter construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens traditional pipelines and treaty-guaranteed Great Sioux territory. The pipeline violates the Treaty of Fort Laramie and the 2016 U.S. Treaty of Fort Laramie, as well as recent U.S. environmental regulations. the same environmental and human hazards as pipelines and would transport fracked crude oil from the Bakken field in North Dakota and connect to existing pipelines in Illinois. Also from Highland News Misleading Archaeological Review Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline Traditional cultural properties in the United States can often .
