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Under Coyote’S Mask: Environmental Law, Indigenous Identity, And #Nodapl, Danielle Delaney
Under Coyote’S Mask: Environmental Law, Indigenous Identity, And #Nodapl, Danielle Delaney
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
This Article studies the relationship between the three main lawsuits filed by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and the Yankton Sioux Tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DaPL) and the mass protests launched from the Sacred Stone and Oceti Sakowin protest camps. The use of environmental law as the primary legal mechanism to challenge the construction of the pipeline distorted the indigenous demand for justice as U.S. federal law is incapable of seeing the full depth of the indigenous worldview supporting their challenge. Indigenous activists constantly re-centered the direct actions and protests within indigenous culture …