{"id":2308,"date":"2020-07-07T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:23:32","slug":"great-plains-tribes-win-important-legal-fight-to-protect-tribal-water-and-treaty-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/?p=2308","title":{"rendered":"Great Plains Tribes Win Important Legal Fight to Protect Tribal Water and Treaty Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Great Plains Tribal\nChairmen\u2019s Association (GPTCA), the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), and the\nNational Congress of American Indians Fund (NCAI Fund) applaud the <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001OaRdqKXBdWh84LnAhUSD7ZVMsbywZyyTkg45i_ZZbIjLMI7iOsdfzYvVjdXy8iSA9PPQHs_fUX80D4IKzTsAP41kyq__jlcbJTEQAIE2G6c-prgnm1ImKMCbbqWzUxH5eFh6ZDJ4s0xvQer4oYpgilYeV2rOO3y0z_lm7stc8cV8wuGbX5dAr-Sorq5PsSmk7WPkfGzjYetlV4vpYNCEKQ==&amp;c=OdlCQuyJ9tZfNi4sKUJP5KZKSWBZJJXW4Jcuy4kL7wmMY1BoFreQzg==&amp;ch=tKF-89Cp_8StHzJFA1pquTQsZ4X6x4Mx3-JwkcUSO_VVx_pIQ_xTfg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">D.C. District Court\u2019s decision<\/a> today to vacate the U.S. Army Corps of\nEngineers\u2019 Lake Oahe easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, and to require\nthe removal of all oil flowing through the pipeline by August 5,\n2020.&nbsp;This decision ensures that the treaty-reserved rights of the\nplaintiff tribes \u2013 the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the Cheyenne\nRiver Sioux Tribe, the Yankton Sioux Tribe, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe \u2013 are adequately addressed, along with any other land and natural\nresource considerations, in a full-fledged and well-documented environmental\nreview process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GPTCA, NARF, and NCAI\nFund participated in a coalition of Native organizations submitting an <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001OaRdqKXBdWh84LnAhUSD7ZVMsbywZyyTkg45i_ZZbIjLMI7iOsdfzYvVjdXy8iSA5ihfUdBnSFwVAHHDTP6QFtEsRW-EwXmGebUOXRnlGo8XQC0vwRb9toyiiGNF5EvMXJ6LXknD3-C6K9Awl9S_quYACV_abVxTgjksjp09GcsBOqBCA9rd9KouUlU1IE5LF3w0oWNCMgFvVCAvZ7Nn1gQZ7_-U2e5GrOhYt3AKvAi4Lz_1qt2m7fhL3i6PE68VGx1oEtKsUXA=&amp;c=OdlCQuyJ9tZfNi4sKUJP5KZKSWBZJJXW4Jcuy4kL7wmMY1BoFreQzg==&amp;ch=tKF-89Cp_8StHzJFA1pquTQsZ4X6x4Mx3-JwkcUSO_VVx_pIQ_xTfg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amicus brief<\/a> in support of the plaintiff tribes during the\nlatest proceedings in the D.C. District Court and are encouraged by this\noutcome. We hope that this decision helps pave the way for full and proper\nenvironmental impact studies as well as meaningful consultation with tribal\nnations that have direct or indirect stewardship over the lands under review.\nOur organizations will continue to work to ensure that every time tribal lands\nand resources are at stake, the environmental review processes meet all legal\nstandards and respect the federal government\u2019s trust obligations to tribes set\nforth in federal laws. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen\u2019s Association (GPTCA), the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), and the National Congress of American Indians Fund (NCAI Fund) applaud the D.C. District Court\u2019s decision today to vacate the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers\u2019 Lake Oahe easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, and to require the removal of all oil flowing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309,"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nativeamericanacademy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}