Short Take: Native Americans, the U.S. Government, and a History of Treaties

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🗓️ 6 December 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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On Sunday, the Army Corps of Engineers refused to issue a permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline. The water protectors, which includes members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other tribes (as well as climate activists), celebrated the decision. But the celebration was brief as the opposition realized that this might be just another battle won in an ongoing war that has spanned centuries. In this Short Take, Brian talks to Robert T. Anderson, a Professor of Law and Director of the Native American Law Center at the University of Washington, about the history of colonization and treaties between the government and indigenous people. (Image credit: Protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline by Fibonacci Blue via Flickr.)

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0:00.0	Major funding for backstory is provided by the ShiaCon Foundation, the National Endowment
0:05.6	for the Humanities, the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, and the Arthur Vining
0:10.6	Davis Foundation.
0:13.7	From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, this is backstory with the American History
0:20.8	Guys.
0:24.6	Hi podcast listeners, I'm Brian Bello.
0:27.2	Over the past few weeks, we've been featuring short midweek podcast explaining the history
0:32.9	behind big headlines.
0:35.6	So we have some breaking news going on right now on the standing rock protest over the
0:41.8	pipeline.
0:42.8	The Army Corps of Engineers halted construction of the Dakota Access Pipelines.
0:46.7	The Army Corps of Engineers will consider different routes, saying it would be best accomplished
0:51.6	through an environmental impact statement.
0:53.9	The past few months of protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline have thrust history into
0:59.0	the headlines.
1:00.4	The standing rock suit tribe argues that the pipeline is in violation of a treaty that
1:05.7	goes all the way back to 1851.
1:09.5	But there also have been many subsequent treaties and court cases on the matter.
1:15.4	This got us thinking, which treaties laws and which precedent should we be examining
1:21.5	when waiting through claims about the land.
1:24.1	Luckily, we have someone here who can help us.
1:26.9	Robert Anderson is the director of the Native American Law Center at the University of
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