Finally, after interminable delay, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has finally released an extremely problematic draft EIS for public input.

That's where you come in. You now have just a few weeks to submit your public comment demanding the #Corps shut this #pipeline down and require a new, valid EIS. Please stand with #StandingRock in this critical moment and write to the Army Corps right now!

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/dapl-eis-2023?ms=ea&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=deac&utm_content=textlink1&sourceid=1059726&contactdata=xT%2f8GWqIiO+2NNTZPhN5a5o5adKjU770fzBQttZXdvpJhjcxEt28Tk%2fL0dwO2h7CcDoe0m39SDs+D4k4IlBovpzP4HpwaJ5Om8SLj8IvDlnN+MXePHXOxqLaG74WAV3Hrsv8WS9IwLgRJnQFqbRhBrHuUo0cGVfafsWxnSdD0izMstGYrRO1EX4tcSoetHiDK7EAe0V3O9G5ZtHj3RcYHV6xc+m2YlNKJ9NANx8pWls%3d&emci=527e099b-9e4e-ee11-a3f1-00224832e1ba&emdi=e1be0b35-a54e-ee11-a3f1-00224832e1ba&ceid=9521138

#NoDAPL #WaterIsLife #LakotaLaw #EndFossilFuels #NoNewOil 🛢

2/5

Open-pit mining, or any #mining for that matter, has no place in or near our #communities and #SacredSites without full tribal consent.

#LandBack #EndFossilFuels #LakotaLaw

10/10

At #LakotaLaw, we work in solidarity with groups like the #BlackHillsCleanWaterAlliance to stop this pattern of #destruction.

The Lakota believe the Black Hills to be our place of #origin on this earthly plane. Lakota cosmology points to an actual physical place in the He Sapa called #WindCave, where we emerged. Today, this sacred site has been commodified and turned into a tourist attraction, limiting our access for ceremonial use.

17/20

https://www.nps.gov/wica/learn/historyculture/the-lakota-emergence-story.htm

In the time since I visited #Peeheemu’huh a few months back with my father, #LakotaLaw co-director and lead counsel #ChaseIronEyes, police have made several arrests related to activism resisting the mine. The #OxSamCamp, named after one of the few to survive the 1865 massacre, is an Indigenous-led prayer camp, which serves as the base camp for the #resistance.

8/20

https://www.oxsam.org/

If we're not on offense, we're losing — and in this case, the cost could well be a healthy #future for the people and other living things that call Peehee mu'huh home.

Phyllis Young
Standing Rock Organizer
The Lakota People's Law Project

#LakotaLaw
#Nevada
#ThackerPass

5/5

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-thacker-pass-haaland-grijalva

Uranium and gold mining are tearing up the sacred He Sapa — the Black Hills of South Dakota. Tell U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to suspend all mining claims in the Black Hills until treaty rights to ancestral homelands are respected and restored. Mni wiconi — water is life.

#LakotaLaw
#DebHaaland
#BlackHills
#mining

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/black-hills-mining

Take Action Now to Help Protect Indigenous Women and Girls

Help confront the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous relatives (#MMIR) by telling your senators to vote for the Family Violence Prevention and Services Improvement Act and asking the Department of Justice to follow through with full and thorough implementation of Savanna’s Act.

#LakotaLaw
#MMIW
#MMIWG

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/mmiw-2022

Nestle makes enormous profits each year and faces no legal accountability for stealing water. Now coffee empire Starbucks has struck a multibillion dollar deal with Nestle. We ask you to join the movement to #BoycottStarbucks, #BoycottNestle, and boycott all of their products. Nestle profits from water theft, habitat destruction, child slavery, & plastic pollution – don't support them!

Take and share the pledge.

#LakotaLaw
#Starbucks
#Nestle

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/nestlepledge

I stand with #LakotaLaw in calling for the return of the #BlackHills--the site of #MountRushmore--to its rightful owners, the #GreatSiouxNation.

#LandBack

Right now, conservative states and fossil fuel lawyers intend to dismantle Indigenous rights and sovereignty by overturning the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) via a majority conservative Supreme Court. Please join us in asking President Biden to take immediate action — up to and including an Executive Order — protecting Native children and sovereignty.

#LakotaLaw

1/2

Over the past months, the #LakotaLaw team has spent many hours in #Nevada at Peehee Mu'Huh — #ThackerPass — where construction has begun on a mine to exploit the largest known lithium deposit on #TurtleIsland.

Find out more about the Indigenous-led #resistance, the total disregard by both government and mining interests for an historic #massacre site with great biological #diversity and sensitivity, and the police raid on and dismantling of the #OxSam prayer camp.

1/6

Tell Biden: #FreeLeonardPeltier! For nearly a half century, American Indian Movement warrior Leonard Peltier has been falsely imprisoned in a federal penitentiary. Tell the president to do the right thing and free our brother now.

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/free-leonard?ms=tw_share&snw=2&ref=ffab756c-2f35-4424-bd55-17d59f88c185

#LakotaLaw
#Indigenous
#native
#indigenousally
#nativeally

And look, there's more good you can do!

#LakotaLaw
#LakotaPeoplesLawProject
#Lakota
#Indigenous
#IndigenousAlly
#Native
#NativeAlly

https://action.lakotalaw.org/

Mount Rushmore is on stolen land. Return the Black Hills to the #Lakota. Sign our petition today #LandBack2020

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/land-back?ms=tw_share&snw=2&ref=1cf7d057-1284-417a-b4f2-30768b327ceb

#LakotaLaw
#BlackHills
#SixGrandfathers

As an undergrad who was planning to go to law school I took an intro to federal Ndn law course and I had the pleasure of attending a #Lakotalaw lecture at the law school about the importance of ICWA.