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The Black Snake in Sioux Country, 2016
The Army Corps of Engineers rejected the pipeline's original route (dotted line) because an oil spill could foul the drinking water of Bismarck, North Dakota. They then approved a route through ancestral Sioux land. The 1851 Horse Creek (Fort Laramie) Treaty defined the gray-shaded area as Sioux territory. A later treaty and acts of Congress altered the boundaries, but the Sioux retained certain rights in the entire territory. The pipeline threatened those rights as well as their water. |