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Wall Street Is Prepared to Destroy Sacred Burial Grounds of the Sioux
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Posted on Sep 16, 2016
By Jerome Irwin
Water protectors at Sacred Stone Camp in Cannon Ball, N.D., with a replica
of the flag that Gen. Custers force carried into battle. (Rob Willson /
Bold
Alliance(https://www.facebook.com/SacredStoneCamp/photos/a.1696414397314258.
1073741828.1570124769943222/1768874206734943/?type=3&theater) )
Major kudos go out to the Texas-based crude oil company Energy Transfer
Partners and its multitude of Wall Street financiers. The lineup reads like
a Whos Who of banksters in the
world(http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/who%27s-banking-dakota-access-pi
peline) : Sunoco, Bank of America, HSBC, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank,
U.S. Bank, Barclays, Wells Fargo, Bank of Nova Scotia, Citibank, Credit
Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, Royal
Bank of Scotland, Bank of Tokyo, Société Générale, Intesa Sanpaolo, BBVA
Compass, Phillips 66, Enbridge and Marathon, to name a few of the 30-plus
international funders of over $10 billion dollars. Their collective
contributions(http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/6/new_investigation_names_w
all_street_banks) to the Dakota Access pipeline are in keeping with the
time-honored, ruthless American
tradition(http://m.bismarcktribune.com/news/opinion/mailbag/detrimental-acts
-throughout-history/article_3c4cff2c-4c62-5bdf-a8bb-89bf68a67e05.html) of
racism, fascism and corporatism toward people of color and the sacredness of
land and life.
The moguls of the petroleum industry and reckless abusers of the earths
finite resources are now intent upon creating an underground pipeline wall
1,172 miles long that winds back and forth across the Missouri River,
through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois, with pipeline
connections to the Gulf of Mexico and many international destinations
beyond. The penchant among politicians and corporatists alike to constantly
build wallswhether above or below groundof various kinds between nations
makes this current pipeline controversy especially poignant on the eve of
the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as voters struggle to decide who is the
lesser evil regarding the support of Wall Street, the Pentagon and the
establishments environmental destruction and warmongers in the world. One
wonders what relevant, pithy commentary will be forthcoming from
presidential candidates Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein and Gary
Johnson?
Energy Transfer Partners and its coterie of fat cats recently sent in a
fleet of Caterpillar tractors to destroy the culturally sensitive, sacred
burial grounds of the Standing Rock Sioux people before their legal
representatives could address relevant state and federal protocols in a
court of law, or North Dakotas State Historic Preservation Office could do
a proper survey of the area. One could either call it a stroke of genius or
stupidity, matched only, perhaps, by the diabolical craftiness of North
Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who called in the National Guard and stirred
tribal memories of muzzling
dissent(http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/09/08/north-dakota-go
vernor-activates-national-guard-tribal-leaders-respond-165730) .
Meanwhile, the brutality and ruthlessness continues at the hands of those
like the Frost Kennels of Ohio and their ex-police and military dog handlers
whove been hired to sic their trained German shepherd guard dogs on
peacefully protesting men, women, elders and children from all races and
nations who have begun to gather in ever-greater numbers to protest what is
going on.
This confrontation in the distant, isolated northern plains and prairie
lands of the Lakota and Dakota Sioux people has all the earmarks of a
potentially brewing, historic Wounded
Knee(http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/wounded-knee) .
Will it end up becoming yet another massacre of 1890 or siege of 1973?
Will America and the fat cat corporatists and politicians ever learn to live
in peace and harmony with those so different from themselves, who live on
ancestral lands they consider forever sacred?
A hopeful answer to that question has been put forth by recent dramatic,
stunning interventions. The Obama administrations departments of the
Interior, Justice and Army stepped in to provide a temporary halt of
construction(http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/us_government_steps_in_afte
r_judge_rules_against_standing_rock_sioux_2016) . This action is meant to
ensure meaningful Sioux tribal input to the dispute and show respect for its
treaty laws and natural laws of life, suggesting that some sanity has begun
to prevail and a window of higher spiritual consciousness and awakening has
been cracked ajar.
The world holds its
breath(https://transformativespaces.org/2016/09/10/erased-by-false-victory-o
bama-hasnt-stopped-dapl/) as it waits to see if this window can be thrown
wide open.
Jerome Irwin is a Canadian author. During the 1960s and early 70s, he lived
with the Dakota and Lakota peoples on the Crow Creek Sioux and Oglala Sioux
reservations in South Dakota. He later published The Wild Gentle Ones: A
Turtle island Odyssey(www.turtle-island-odyssey.com) , a book that
documents these tribes historical plight and those of other indigenous
peoples on Turtle Island.
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