Apart from the words "anti-pipeline", that could describe any of hundreds of events from the past 200 years. Demonizing and persecuting the Sioux, in pursuit o

Apart from the words "anti-pipeline", that could describe any of hundreds of events from the past 200 years. Demonizing and persecuting the Sioux, in pursuit of wealth for European settlers, has been going on for as long as the United States have existed. Even if you know nothing about oil pipelines (and I don't), there's simply no chance this story was going to end with "The First Nations got a raw deal in every interaction with the United States for the past 200 years, but this time it turned out perfectly fine." The U.S. was a signatory of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851. Go check out the area of land which the U.S. agreed to lay no claim to.