And the US Supreme Court awarded them the value of the land plus interest in 1980

Which treaty? Each subsequent one shrank the area that was considered theirs.

Unless they were burying people there in the last 30 years, none of it would be there anymore because it would have been bulldozed when the first pipeline was built. Archaeologists from the state had already walked the route of this one and had the pipeline re-routed around 140 different sites. If they had found…

Actually, the real reasons it wasn’t routed near Bismark had nothing to do with suburbanites or wanting to screw over “PoC”. That route was longer and would have involved more routing around wetlands, bodies of water, etc. that would have made construction/permitting harder and if there ever was a problem in the…

Of course they could have changed the route, however they would have more wetlands, bodies of water, etc that would have made construction/permitting process more complicated and potentially be more hazardous in the future. The route near Bismarck was ruled out because of that reason.

Maybe they’re like Warren Buffet and own BNSF railroad stock?

The pipeline isn’t in the water. The plan is for it to be 80 feet under the river bottom. Sideways drilling technology is being used so they don’t even have to dig up the riverbed.

You mean like the pipeline that is already going through these so-called sacred lands? This pipeline already goes under other rivers that would affect even more people. Have you ever looked at a map where all the crude oil pipelines are in the US? All this does is keep freight rates high on upper Great Plains…

Decades of propaganda will do that, not to mention that those who publicly showed their opposition to the regime were killed or hauled off to prison.

If you can find it, the tv series/documentary “Two Men in a Tinny” is kind of interesting.

If it goes to a good home and infects the driver with your XJ collecting disease, then all is well.

Do you know any suburbanites that want any major construction in their area? I guess the concept of upstream vs downstream doesn’t mean anything to you? The Missouri River dams are nice, but I wouldn’t call them magical.

That’s not much of a debunking. If you have nothing better to do, I’m sure you can file FOI requests for the court documents. A good friend in college grew up on the Standing Rock reservation. What he has said in the past would make me extremely leery of believing anything the tribal leadership says or does.

I hope the difference in employees is due to the employees at the headquarters and other design/test related facilities.

Yes, all Hemis are made in México and so is the 6.7 Powerstroke. Yes, certainly not all muscle car engines but a good chunk of them are. I did not mean to imply that they all were. It would be tough to be a Trump supporter and part of the “Hellcat everything” club.

Their water supply is upstream of the pipeline crossing. The trains carrying the same crude are not.

It looks like quite a bit of background work was done prior to digging: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-standing-rock-sioux-other-side-110916-20161109-story.html

The tribe had plenty of time to bring up their concerns. Not to mention any other stuff should have been found when the other pipeline went through the same right of way. IMHO, this is nothing but a shakedown attempt.

They are also passing some anti-freedom of association laws in order to try to get their “outlaw biker” and other gangs under control. To say that they don’t have a violence problem as well, is a bit naive. It is just different.

Pretty much. I wonder how many guys with their ‘Murican bro-dozers and muscle cars realize their engines are made in México.