Phyllis Bennis
Posted on 11/24/2016 1:23:59 AM PST by Olog-hai
A director at a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C. said on Tuesday that white privilege and white supremacy led to the Energy Transfer oil pipeline project that includes land in North Dakota, and compared it to building a pipeline under Arlington Cemetery and across the Potomac River. […]
Phyllis Bennis, director of the Institute for Policy Studies’ New Internationalism Project, first quoted David Archambault, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux, who has said the pipeline would harm burial grounds and threaten the water of Lake Oahe, the location of a Sioux ancestral site. […]
“The equivalent, we might think, would be building a pipeline under Arlington Cemetery and across the Potomac, and saying, ‘Well, it provides jobs’ — as if that were, one, true and two, the only important issue,” said Bennis.
“It’s also, I would say, an example of the classic consequences of white privilege in this country, of white supremacy in this country,” Bennis said. …
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Yeah; how much Soros money is being spent on this astroturfing? Never mind encouraging more riots.
So much ignorance in that protest. So much appeal to emotion, “it’s freezing and the police are spraying peaceful Protectors with water....” when the facts are hostile trespassers face consequences for illegal and dangerous activities.
Indian artifacts were not an issue until a month ago when someone "found" a stone point supposedly on the right of way, a point which looks suspiciously like a Mississippian culture point form the Ohio river valley.
Another point worth noting is the Obama connection to this protest. David Archambault's sister was one of the longest serving advisors to Obama. Obama made a rather hush hush visit to Standing Rock last year just prior to the onset of the current terrorist activities in the Bismarck area.
If the pipeline is going under ground, how is it disturbing tribal sovereignty? Imminent domain is used to dig the trench. Once the pipe is buried, life goes on above ground as if nothing happened. All this is, is a cover for the true agenda: The derailment of our nation’s pursuit of energy independence. Could this be the subversive efforts of the middle eastern oil cartel?
I’d say it’s part of that JCPOA myself.
Moving oil can’t be a moneymaker for the railroad these days, what with the smaller capacity (due to abandonments thanks to regulation out of DC among other things; slower trains means lost revenue) and the increasing federal requirements for oil tanker cars related to safety et al. Of course, Buffett would be counting on subvention out of DC to help his bottom line either way.
“Indian artifacts were not an issue until a month ago when someone “found” a stone point supposedly on the right of way, a point which looks suspiciously like a Mississippian culture point form the Ohio river valley.”
Finding a point means absolutely nothing we find them all over the big ranch with some miles away from the closest camp site. In that area you had nomadic tribes just like here in West Texas. The moved as soon as local resources were exhausted. On the big ranch we’ve found around 50 known campsites with only a few showing signs of being ysed for any length of time. Wood was a primary need just as water was and four to five hundred people can consume that in short order when used for cooking and heat. I haven’t even mentioned the limited amount of game available.
And now...a Rachel Corrie like affair in the works.
To bad for the “ peaceful “ protesters the woman didn’t die
A friend posted a picture of 600 white college students that just arrived at Cannonball.
My question was, how did they get there?
On busses from Wisconsin, I bet
The “burial ground” excuse is lame, too. There has been no evidence of multiple burials at one site anywhere near the pipeline route.
While the population density of the pre-Columbian peoples west of the Mississippi was never great, given enough time, and the short life span of Stone Age humans, there’s bound to be remains found along a route the length of that pipeline, particularly near a water source.
If they are being sprayed with water its probably the first shower they’ve had in weeks!
If I recall correctly, Lake Oahe is man-made! It was created by the construction of the Oahe Dam.
These “sacred burial grounds” arguments from Indians are as ridiculous as they are tiresome. Most Plains Indians didn’t bury their dead. They placed them on scaffolds or even in the crooks of trees. And since the tribes were nomadic, they disposed of their dead where they fell, meaning that pretty much all of the Midwest has some kind of dead Indian relic on it. Are we supposed to consider all that real estate “sacred burial grounds?”
No mention of the corporations that run US policy by owning the politicians. Its the crackers fault....
“The “burial ground” excuse is lame, too. There has been no evidence of multiple burials at one site anywhere near the pipeline route.”
Exactly! I’m guessing that any so called “burial grounds” since not long after the beginning of the reservation, are likely to be well marked cemeteries. But the whole dang “protest” is based upon lies anyway. Why else would they have to bus in college students, fully brainwashed in leftist propaganda, to help with the protests.
“Burial”
“In pre-reservation times bodies of deceased Lakota were dressed in their best clothes, wrapped in hides or a blanket and placed on a scaffold. The scaffold might be in a tree or, out on the plains, constructed of lodge poles. Special possessions of the deceased, such as a pipe or weapon, were also wrapped and placed on the scaffold with him. While the scaffold prevented animals from reaching the body, it was allowed to decay naturally. In exceptional situations, the body of a warrior killed in battle might be placed sitting against a rock or tree facing the enemy.”
http://peopleof.oureverydaylife.com/lakota-indian-burial-rituals-3326.html
I think the whole “indian burial ground” is more a Hollywood idea then an anthropologic/archaeologic fact.
***the pipeline would harm burial grounds***
Are they burying their dead outside the rez in the ground? In the olden days they used sky burial on a scaffold and had no real burying ground, and while traveling, they would give the old people a bowl of water and some food, then abandon them.
The “Sacred Indian Burial Ground” has been used for years to try and stop various projects across the USA.
Whites from Minnesota are being paid and bussed in to work the protest lines.
TWINKIE has a few drops of American Indian blood from
both sides of my family. If the Injuns had stuck together
instead of fighting and killing each other; the WHITE MAN
could never have defeated them. - Sort of like IF us
DEPLORABLES stick together, this silliness WILL end.
How many of those tribes would appeal to the God of Israel for a victory, though?
Because the real Native American Indians don't care about this non-issue.
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