Native Americans vow a last stand to block Keystone XL oil pipeline

Washington Post ^ | 03/03/2013 | Rob Hotakainen,

[SeekAndFind]

Faith Spotted Eagle figures that building a crude oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast would bring little to Indian Country besides more crime and dirty water, but she doubts that Native Americans will ever be able to get the U.S. government to block the $7 billion project.

“There is no way for Native people to say no — there never has been,” said Spotted Eagle, 65, a Yankton Sioux tribal elder from Lake Andes, S.D. “Our history has caused us not to be optimistic. . . . When you have capitalism, you have to have an underclass — and we’re the underclass.”

Opponents may be down after a State Department study found that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would not contribute to global warming. But they haven’t abandoned their goal of killing what some call the “black snake.”

In South Dakota, home to some of the nation’s poorest American Indians, tribes are preparing for nonviolent battle with “resistance training” aimed at TransCanada, the company that wants to develop the 1,700-mile pipeline.

Although organizers said they want to keep their strategy a secret, they’re considering vigils, civil disobedience and blockades to thwart the moving of construction equipment and the delivery of materials.

[IronJack]

Actually, no. The Indians I know (and they prefer to be called "Indians," not "Native Americans; that's a liberal white man's lie) don't have any problem with a football team a thousand miles away. Nor do they care about an oil pipeline.

But like all minorities, there is an element that can be manipulated into doing the Left's bidding. Once they've created enough havoc, they can be put back in the closet until the next time they're useful.

[McGruff]

I heard this stuff works wonders.

[The Great RJ]

The Lakota tribes in South Dakota are being stirred up by outside environmental agitators. The western routing of this pipeline in South Dakota will barely cross Native American Reservations, but go through some of the most sparsely populated counties in the state. Most of the pipeline would be as much as 100 miles from any population centers on the reservations.

This is the same environmental BS we heard in the 1970s with the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. We were assured by environmentalists that building the Alaska pipeline would result in the state becoming an oil soaked moonscape and that the caribou and other wild life would be decimated. 40 years after the Alaska pipeline was constructed none of these dire predictions came true. The Keystone pipeline would not require any of the engineering challenges, like permafrost, bogs and mountain ranges faced by the Alaska pipeline. The area is already crisscrossed by pipelines that have been in the ground for decades without any problems.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Bring on CHIVINGTON and his 100 day volunteers!

[marron]

Jobs are bad. Okay?

[marron]

In South Dakota, home to some of the nation’s poorest American Indians, tribes are preparing for nonviolent battle with “resistance training” aimed at making sure there are no jobs to be had.

[Hot Tabasco]

Indians on the war path......again.

[Hot Tabasco]

those Indians need to get off their “reservations” and off their collective asses and get jobs in the energy industry

It ain't the indians, it's their attorneys.......

[S.O.S121.500]

“When you have capitalism, you have to have an underclass — and we’re the underclass”. -Faith Spotted Eagle

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YOUR choice obviously. At least for the past 100+ years you’ve sucked the government teat instead of joining the human race. “Professional” Indian victims.......spit

[1010RD]

They have reservations about the project.