Posted on 04/28/2014 8:40:41 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Keystone Pipeline Protesters: ‘Man Camps’ Could Lead to Sexual Assaults of Native Americans
April 28, 2014 - 9:35 AM
By Penny Starr
CNSNews.com) – Native Americans opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline said its construction could lead to Native American women being sexually assaulted, according to news reports from a protest held this week on the National Mall. However, a workers’ union that supports the pipeline said such claims were “disgusting” and harmful to the “hard-working people who build America.”
“We are worried about man camps that are coming to our territory,” Faith Spotted Eagle, an elder with the Yankton Sioux of North Dakota, said at the protest, as reported by Politico.
Spotted Eagle said the mostly male encampments that would be put in place to house those working on the pipeline posed a threat to Native American women.
“We have seen our women suffer,” she said. “One out of three women in our nation have been sexually assaulted by non-native people.”
Members of tribes from states along the path where the pipeline would be built to transport crude oil from Alberta, Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast joined non-tribal protestors in a coalition called the “Cowboy and Indian Alliance.”
“We have stopped the pipeline in its tracks for the last five years,” protestor Jane Kleeb of the environmental group Bold Nebraska, said at the protest.
Rosebud Sioux President Cyrill Scott told BuzzFeed that some of the man camps would have as many as 600 men.
“I am very concerned these transient workers are going to come onto our land and violate our people,” Scott said.
“There will be violence and sexual assault from Keystone,” Aldo Seoane, another Rosebud Souix, said at the protest.
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Translation : We’re worried our women will be turning tricks for the oil pipeline workers.
She has since passed but you could feel her disappointment in her own people.
These Native American protestors recently went to Washington taking their protest to the Mall. Just wondering who funded that trip???
That’s what I was just thinking....Follow the money...
For too long America has been fed a fantasy about the noble native American but in reality they’re just mortals who are just as corruptible as anyone else.
“Spotted Eagle Dick is a sexist creep.”
And an English desert.
Plenty of “man camps” in North Dakota already due to fracking. Sounds like that horse done left the barn.
I thought Injuns hide in the woods. Retreat.
Alcohol and drugs seem to be more of a trigger....THASSS RAACIIIS!!!
Hmm... Have they ever heard of CCL? That will take care of the majority of attacks.
I heard on ABC radio news propaganda that a tribe, not sure if it’s this same one, was trying to stop it because there will inevitably be an oil spill that will contaminate their aquifer.
The key here being, no matter what criticism they are making, it is about being paid.
All they want is some dollar.
Hysteria...
Libs are good at it.
If the republicans ever learned to drive wedges between the various factions of democrat voters it could be disastrous for the democrats.
Exactly. As a womyn, I am offended by her implication that only men will work on the pipeline.
He read that somewhere.
He wrote it down.
And then he read it.
The smallpox blanket story has been debunked.
I don’t know about this tribe, but on a lot of reservations, when it comes to abuse of women, there is plenty produced in-house and its usually related to alcohol. I realize that two wrongs don’t make a right, but this guy is horriblizing and jumping to conclusions.
As if I cared.
A dessert that sounds like an STD. No thanks.
Sounds like an STD.
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