A national day of protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline is scheduled for Tuesday, November 15. This is the pipeline that was moved from a location near Bismarck, North Dakota, because of concerns over the water supply, to a location across American Indian ancestral and treaty lands. You probably have read or seen the demonstrations at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.
In Carbon County our demonstration in solidarity with the Indians will be held at the Courthouse in Jim Thorpe on Nov. 15 at 10:00 a.m. This will be a silent vigil lasting approximately one hour. It is fitting to hold this protest in a town named after one of America’s Indian heroes. It is also fitting because once again the American government is failing to honor its treaty obligations with an Indian tribe.
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