May 14, 2013<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not welcome here\u2026 We\u2019ve said no from day one.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n And with these firm words the TransCanada representatives were kicked out of Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation last week. The seemingly aloof TransCanada officials showed up at the Tribal Office in Eagle Butte, South Dakota in an attempt to win the tribe over to the pipeline, but were met with a swift, firm response. Robin LeBeau, Cheyenne River Sioux Councilwoman for District 5, saw them in the parking lot and promptly told them off.<\/p>\n The encounter was caught on video:<\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/fUIDg7YfVnI<\/p>\n Robin LeBeau:<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want no TransCanada people here\u2026I\u2019m going to fight hard and if I find anyone else here I\u2019m going to bring more people in abundance to tell you guys to leave.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis pipeline is the most destructive pipeline. You\u2019re going to rape, steal and destroy everything that is for us\u2026.everything, our land, our culture, our water.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n And what do the TransCanada reps suggest the Tribe do with these valid concerns? Write a letter to the CEO. What\u2019s his name, again? Their response:<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t even know the guy\u2019s name\u2026 um\u2026they have a website\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Really?! Thats the best these guys can do? Like writing a letter to Russ Girling is going to convince this multinational corporation to stop building their multi-billion dollar project and respect the lives of indigenous peoples. This corporation has demonstrated numerous times that they only care about their profits and will bully and bankrupt anyone who stands in their way.<\/p>\n Tribal members know it. They aren\u2019t buying TransCanada\u2019s false promises and understand the threat that toxic tar sands pose to their Sacred Water, burial grounds, and historic landmarks. The Keystone XL pipeline would cut right through their Treaty Territory and some of their most Sacred Sites. (You can watch part 2 of the video here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cheyenne River Crossing: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe The last several months has seen the indigenous resistance along the proposed KXL Northern segment continue to grow. Just this last week the Native News Network reported that the National Congress of American Indians, \u201cthe nation\u2019s oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization in the country,\u201d publicly released a statement of opposition to Keystone XL and criticized the State Department\u2019s flawed \u201cEnvironmental Impact Statement\u201d.<\/p>\n Additionally, the Moccasins on the Ground Tour of Resistance<\/a> will travel to Cheyenne River in mid-June to continue to build this resistance and unite the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota<\/a> peoples against this toxic intruder.<\/p>\n By now Russ Girling shouldn\u2019t need a handwritten letter to know the message coming from Red Nations along the pipeline route: \u201cGo Away!\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May 14, 2013 \u201cYou\u2019re not welcome here\u2026 We\u2019ve said no from day one.\u201d And with these firm words the TransCanada representatives were kicked out of Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation last week. The seemingly aloof TransCanada officials showed up at the Tribal Office in Eagle Butte, South Dakota in an attempt to win the tribe over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13,69,104,24],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-blog","tag-climate-justice","tag-direct-action","tag-nodapl","tag-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGoogle Earth map depicting proposed Keystone XL Pipeline crossing Cheyenne River at Milepost 430.07. Cheyenne River Indian Reservation is indicated. Source: NCAI Analysis \u2014 figure 4.<\/p>\n