Pure evil: Last Saturday Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., a Texas-based company backed by four publicly traded partnerships in the Energy Transfer Family, in its rush to preempt federal court litigation desecrated cultural sites using bulldozers, dogs and chemical weapons to attack peaceful, prayerful ordinary people who tried to stop it in furtherance of the sinful Dakota Access Pipeline. Entire affair should be condemned by United Nations and United States. Present on the ground Saturday was Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, who documented the FULL Exclusive Report: Dakota Access Pipeline Co. Attacks Native Americans with Dogs & Pepper Spray including transcript.
“This demolition is devastating,” {Tribal Chair, Dave] Archambault said. “These grounds are the resting places of our ancestors. The ancient cairns and stone prayer rings there cannot be replaced. In one day, our sacred land has been turned into hollow ground.”
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“In the afternoon of Friday, September 2, 2016, the Tribe submitted recently discovered evidence of historically and religiously important stone features and graves that are in or immediately adjacent to the pipeline’s proposed right-of-way approximately 2 to 4 miles away from the Lake Oahe crossing site. One of these sites—a stone representation of a constellation used for prayer for a select group of Tribal leaders—was described by the Tribe’s cultural expert, Tim Mentz, Sr., as “one of the most significant archaeological finds in North Dakota in many years.” Mr. Mentz described an extraordinary concentration of graves (including burials of important chiefs) and stone features marking a highly unusual and sacred area directly in and adjacent to the pipeline’s route near Lake Oahe.” — — “ Less than 24 hours after that filing, the features described by Mr. Mentz had been bulldozed by DAPL. On Saturday, September 3, 2016, DAPL construction crews graded the entire area by removing the top layer of vegetation and soil, removing or burying all stone features in and next to the pipeline’s 150 foot right of way. The loss of these sites causes incalculable harm to the Tribe.”
— — source: September 4, 2016 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE, Plaintiff, v. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, Defendant. Case No. 1:16-cv-1534-JEB EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER. and MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER