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Cowboys and Indians are at it again.
Americans who don’t live in the West may think that the historic clash
of Native Americans and pioneering settlers is long past because the
Indians were, after all, defeated and now drive cars, watch television,
and shop at Walmart. Not so. That classic American narrative is back
big time, only the Indians are now the good guys and the cowboys --
well, their rightwing representatives, anyway -- are on the warpath,
trying to grab 640 million acres of public lands that they can plunder
as if it were yesteryear. Meanwhile, in the Dakotas, America’s Manifest
Destiny, that historic push across the Great Plains to the Pacific
(murdering and pillaging along the way), seems to be making a return
trip to Sioux country in a form that could have planetary consequences.
Energy Transfer Partners is now building the Dakota Access Pipeline, a
$3.7 billion oil slick of a project. It’s slated to go from the Bakken
gas and oil fracking fields in northern North Dakota across 1,100 miles
of the rest of the Dakotas and Iowa to a pipeline hub in Illinois. From
there, the oil will head for refineries on the Gulf Coast and
ultimately, as the emissions from fossil fuels, into the atmosphere to
help create future summers so hot no one will forget them. Keep in mind
that, according to global warming’s terrible new math, there’s enough
carbon in those Bakken fields to roast the planet -- if, that is, the
Sioux and tribes allied with them don’t stop the pipeline.
This time, in other words, if the cavalry does ride to the rescue, the
heroes on horseback will be speaking Lakota.
full:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176188/tomgram%3A_chip_ward%2C_peace_pipes%2C_not_oil_pipes
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