This is gearing up to get really ugly...
MONDAY: March 5, 2012 5:30 pm mountain time)
Lakotas on Pine Ridge Indian land in South Dakota are being arrested as they halt trucks of the Keystone XL pipleline from entering their territory.
Oglala Sioux Vice President Tom Poor Bear, Lakota human rights activists Alex White Plume, Debra White Plume, Andrew Ironshell and others were reported arrested late Monday. They are currently being taken...... to the jail in Kyle, S.D.
An action alert was sent out shortly before the arrests: "Calling all Lakota men on the Pine Ridge Reservation to come to Wanblee, South Dakota. XL Pipeline trucks are being held there at the border by our Lakota Oyate, Oglala Sioux Tribal Police and State Troopers in an effort to keep them from entering our territory. Even the state troopers told the trucks they have to turn around and cannot bring their pipeline or other materials on to our reservation. The XL Pipeline trucks are refusing to turn around claiming they have corporate rights that supersede any other law."
Reports from the scene say that the trucks are being allowed to pass, as Lakotas are being arrested attempting to halt the trucks from entering their sovereign territory.
Updates athttp://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
PHOTO: Lakota grandmother and activist Debra White Plume, and Oglala Vice President Tom Poor Bear protesting Keystone XL pipeline and tarsands at the White House."
Lakotas on Pine Ridge Indian land in South Dakota are being arrested as they halt trucks of the Keystone XL pipleline from entering their territory.
Oglala Sioux Vice President Tom Poor Bear, Lakota human rights activists Alex White Plume, Debra White Plume, Andrew Ironshell and others were reported arrested late Monday. They are currently being taken...... to the jail in Kyle, S.D.
An action alert was sent out shortly before the arrests: "Calling all Lakota men on the Pine Ridge Reservation to come to Wanblee, South Dakota. XL Pipeline trucks are being held there at the border by our Lakota Oyate, Oglala Sioux Tribal Police and State Troopers in an effort to keep them from entering our territory. Even the state troopers told the trucks they have to turn around and cannot bring their pipeline or other materials on to our reservation. The XL Pipeline trucks are refusing to turn around claiming they have corporate rights that supersede any other law."
Reports from the scene say that the trucks are being allowed to pass, as Lakotas are being arrested attempting to halt the trucks from entering their sovereign territory.
Updates athttp://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
PHOTO: Lakota grandmother and activist Debra White Plume, and Oglala Vice President Tom Poor Bear protesting Keystone XL pipeline and tarsands at the White House."
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