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The Standing Rock Sioux Indians: An Inconvenience For Black Gold, Alina Yohannan
The Standing Rock Sioux Indians: An Inconvenience For Black Gold, Alina Yohannan
University of Baltimore Journal of Land and Development
The issue of the Native American (“Indian”) tribes’ rights to their lands started with the application of the European doctrine of discovery, continued with series of wars and population decimations, and finished with broken treaties and territorial occupations. After centuries of struggle for land and sovereignty, Indians still fight for their rights to the North American territories.
The lawsuit brought by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“the Corps”) is the latest and most publicized in recent years. The Tribe’s main concerns are the passing of a major crude-oil pipeline (Dakota Access Pipeline, or …