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negromancer
Aug 20, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
Best (worst) part is, the pipeline was originally supposed to go through Bismarck but the white people there were like "lol gtfo" and so they basically went to the government saying "ahhh, you guys don't keep treaties with NAs anyways, let us run the pipeline all through their poo poo".

And here we are.

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negromancer
Aug 20, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
Good to see the "might white makes right" poster shut the gently caress down before I returned.

Good job everyone.

negromancer
Aug 20, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

Dead Reckoning posted:

I don't know what you're getting at. Your original post was, "why did they bring out the MRAPs for the Sioux, but not the white people (of Bismark)?" It seems like the trespassing is the rather obvious distinction.


Okay, but it's 2016 and the United States is pretty well established, and filled with non-native people, so there has to be some sort of formal delineation of which land the Sioux have a legal claim of ownership to and which land belongs to other people.

People usually don't have claim to stolen property in court, especially if said property was stolen by force, but when the thief controls the court...

negromancer
Aug 20, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

Gobbeldygook posted:

A truly beautiful story.

It's just 40 miles from Bismarck to the Sioux reservation. Does the tribes claim on the river also extend just 40 miles upstream? Where does their claim on land that isn't their land end?

They could claim all the goddamn land for 100 miles and not be wrong in doing so, considering a bunch of genocidal white people stole it.

negromancer
Aug 20, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

Liquid Communism posted:

poo poo, it's almost like, in living memory, the Corps of Engineers flooded one of the most resource-dense parts of the reservation because they wanted to put a lake there.

It's almost like it happened in our parents lifetime or something...weird right?

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