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Description
Earth Day Program addressing the impact of oil pipelines, including those in Minnesota, on the environment, how tribal rights are implicated, Standing Rock and other demonstrations, and current legislative issues.
A
B
Good
evening,
everybody
thanks
for
coming
tonight
and
thanks
for
joining
the
League
of
Women
Voters
Bloomington
and
the
League
of
Women
Voters
of
Dakota
County
for
our
Earth
Day
event.
We
have
an
Earth
Day
event
every
year
and
we're
excited
to
have
it
this
year.
For
the
first
time
it's
st.
Stephen
I
want
to
thank
Lois
nor
guard.
Louis
leads
legal
women,
voter
Bloomington's,
Earth
Day
event
every
year,
and
this
is
her
brainchild,
so
Thank
You,
Louis
I,
want
to
thank
our
volunteers.
We
had
a
lot
of
volunteers
put
this
together,
including
and
I.
B
The
League
of
Women
Voters
is
a
non-profit
political
organization
that
never
endorses
any
political
party
or
candidate
gleeg
as
a
grassroots
organization,
however,
conducts
consensus
studies
involving
significant
research
and
analysis
and
then
creates
positions
based
on
that
research
and
analysis.
The
League
of
Women
Voters
has
long
and
detailed
positions
on
environmental
issues,
and
you
can
google
them
and
read
them.
I'm
not
going
to
I'm,
not
going
to
repeat
them
all
here
with
respect
to
natural
resources,
though,
the
League
of
Women
Voters
believes
that
natural
resources
should
be
managed
as
interrelated
parts
of
life
supporting
ecosystems.
B
B
The
League
of
Women
Voters
supports
strong
regulation
to
protect
our
natural
environment
and
I.
Do
encourage
you
to
courage
you
to
look
at
the
league's
positions
online,
although
our
speakers
tonight
aren't
speaking
on
behalf
of
League
of
Women
Voters,
we
think
it's
critical
that
they
be
heard
on
a
variety
of
issues
surrounding
pipelines.
B
Know
speakers
here
are
representing
pipeline
companies
and
we're
not
focusing
on
things
like
whether
oil
should
be
transported
by
rail
or
pipeline.
Those
issues
are
well
covered
in
the
Newark.
In
the
news.
The
speakers
who
are
here
tonight
represent
various
dimensions,
the
issue
that
do
their
consideration
before
we
get
started.
B
This
forum
is
fast
paced
and
tightly
timed,
and
so
please
withhold
any
clapping
or
verbal
statements
in
reaction
to
any
statement
by
the
moderator,
any
speaker
or
anything
that
might
cause
any
interruption
or
delay
that
may
impact
the
ability
of
other
members
of
the
audience
to
hear,
and
also
that
might
interfere
with.
The
video
recording.
Also
questions
for
these
speakers
are
invited
and
they
should
be.
In
writing
audience.
Members
are
invited
to
write
members
on
the
note
cards
that
have
been
provided
to
you.
Please
change
requests
and
question
cards
to
a
league.
B
C
You
very
good
yeah
thanks
everybody
for
coming
I'm,
going
to
introduce
our
moderator
for
the
evening
and
so
Robert
pilot
is
a
proud
enrolled.
Member
of
the
host
Chunk
nation.
He
teaches
at
Harding
High
School
in
Saint,
Paul
he's
a
video
production
teacher,
so
he
co
teaches
Harding's
award-winning,
drumline
program,
robert's
musician
and
filmmaker
owning
pilot
productions.
Film
and
video
he's
also
a
producer
and
host
for
dado
native
roots,
radio
I'm
awake
on
AM
950.
That's
on
Saturdays
from
2:00
to
3:00
every
week,
so
you
can
catch
his
program.
C
There
he's
a
proud
board,
member
of
MN
350
as
well
the
climate's
working
on
change
issues.
Mr.
pilot
graduated
from
the
University
of
Minnesota,
with
a
bachelor's
in
career
tech,
ed
he's
been
teaching
at
Harding,
High
School,
since
1996
he's
married
and
has
two
beautiful
adult
twin
daughters,
and
his
passions
include
protecting
water
and
burial
sites
in
Minnesota
and
across
the
nation.
Mr.
Robert
is
a
water
protector.
He
was
a
water
protector
at
Standing
Rock
three
times
and
with
that
I'd
like
us
all
to
welcome
our
moderator.
For
the
evening
mr.
Robert
Pilate.
D
Thank
you
that
was
really
nice.
I.
Think
I
wrote
that
though,
but
that's
I
was
good.
You
know
I
want
to
first
thank
the
League
of
Women
Voters
for
having
me
and
asked
me
to
be
here
and
partake
into
the
Earth
Day
forum,
pipelines
and
impacts.
I
want
to
thank
redbone
for
coming
out
here.
It's
a
so
right
on.
D
They
told
me,
you
know
this
forum
is
a
nonpartisan
forum
and
that's
okay
with
me,
because
there's
an
old
native,
same
Knolls,
Indian
saying
and
it's
it
goes,
the
left
wing
and
the
right
wing
are
from
the
same
bird,
so
I
don't
have
a
problem
with
being
nonpartisan
and
I.
Think
the
two
people
that
were
running
for
president
didn't
mentioned
too
much
about
staying
Iraq
so
that
that
holds
bodes
well.
D
For
me,
my
journey
I
just
tell
you
quick,
my
journey
of
activism
for
a
water,
and
our
native
people
are
first
people,
pre
America
I'm,
a
high
school
teacher,
a
lot
I'm
on
the
parent
committee
for
st.
Paul,
public
schools,
the
Indian
Native
American
parent
committee,
and
this
year
was
something
special
because
we
went
non
concurrent
with
the
school
district
and
when
nothing
changes,
nothing
changes
and
I
think
hopefully
they're
going
to
get
the
big
picture
and
the
next.
The
next
phase
is
a
lawsuit
with
st.
D
D
Standing
Rock
has
awakened
many
many
people
as
you'll
hear
tonight,
including
my
wife
and
I.
We
brought
our
dogs
out
there,
our
little
chihuahuas,
and
we
have
a
picture
of
my
wife
standing
with
the
camp
and
stand
at
Standing
Rock
and
in
the
background,
with
all
the
beautiful
teepees
in
the
river,
with
our
twala's
and
I'll.
Never
forget
that.
That's
a
that's!
That's
something
that
that
I'll
never
forget
it's
a
but
back
to
the
story.
I
am
950.
D
One
of
the
things
that's
exciting
about
tonight
and
what
we
do
on
a
radio
show
also
is
that
I
really
don't
know
much,
but
what
I
do
is
I
bring
people
that
do
know,
and
so
I
had
not
my
opinion.
It's
the
facts
and
they
come
in
with
their
truth
and
tell
us
what
these
issues
are
and
and
again,
I
could
sit
here
and
be
angry
at
certain
politicians
and
what
they're
doing,
but
that's
just
anger.
D
That's
another
story
that
we
can
go
into,
but
I'm,
really
what
I'm
really
excited
about
is
to
have
all
these
great
water
protectors
and
people
with
information
that
are
well
beyond
what
I
know
and
I'm
also
really
excited
to
have
redbone
here,
who's
going
to
be
singing
and
telling
us
the
traditions
of
what
goes
with
the
drum
and
the
songs
and
what
they
mean
and
I'd
really
love
to
just
give
it
over
to
them
right
now.
Thank
you.
E
Honey
buzu,
my
name's
miss
Loretta
Charlie
I'm,
a
Red
Lake
Ojibwe
I
grew
up
here
in
the
metro
area,
most
of
my
life,
and
then
we
got
a
boyfriend
you're.
My
bro
Donald
Donald
black
hawk
he's
from
his
ho
Chun,
also
from
here
in
Minneapolis
and
Isiah
Olsen,
who
is
Fondulac
and
Red
Lake,
and
he's
also
here
from
Minneapolis
and
we're
out
there
redbone
and
we're
up
here
from
the
Twin
Cities
in
Minneapolis
to
st.
Paul
and
we've
been
sitting
here
in
the
Twin
Cities.
E
Since
we
were
all
little
guys
going
up,
not
always
singing
at
the
same
drum
group,
but
I
was
singing
together.
We
always
jump
up
with
each
other
right
bone
we've
been
redbone,
we
started,
redbone
was
started
about
two
years
ago.
It
was
actually
started
in
found
black
at
the
black
bear
casino
Paulo
by
some
all
of
us
right
here
and
we've
been
traveling
ever
said.
We've
been
traveling
all
over
the
United
States
to
different
tribal
celebrations.
All
over
traveling
to
different
contests.
Powell's
are
sharing
our
music
to
all
the
different
tribal
peoples
out
there.
E
Today
we
are
about
our
hand,
drums
just
because
there's
not
three
of
us
and
it
seemed
like
a
better
fit
the
hand
drums.
The
song
that
we're
saying
is
was
a
Cree
song,
it's
a
round
and
song
and
those
are
popular
up
north
and
Canada
from
the
kree's,
and
they
have
those
round
dances
that
go
on
during
the
winter
time,
and
so
that's
why
I
brought
the
hand
drum,
so
it
will
be
easier
for
us
and
the
hand
drums
were
around
before
the
big
drum.
E
E
We
also
I,
that's
the
drum
we
travel
with
those
drums
are
the
real
sacred
to
us.
We
are
oftentimes,
you
refer
to
us
up,
we'll
call
our
drums,
grandpa's
and
there's
a
way
we
look
at.
It
is
that
our
drums
have
spirits
in
them.
So
in
our
language,
when
we
talk
about
the
drum
we
talked
about
the
drum
because
the
drums
alive,
so
we
talked
about
the
drum
we
say
he
and
we
say
our
vows.
We
say
he
or
she
and
that's
the
way.
E
We
talked
about
the
drum
as
a
person
and
we
bring
the
drum
with
us
all
over
and
the
another
thing
that's
taught
to
us
it
that
the
drum
would
never
never
belongs
to
us.
We
just
take
care
of
them.
The
jump
belongs
to
the
people,
so
anytime
were
asked
to
sing.
We
always
come
out
and
sing
especially
around
here
and
where
we're
from
in
Minneapolis,
we
sing
at
all
kinds
of
different
events
and
all
kinds
of
different
places.
We're
also
us.
We
sing
at
a
lot
of
different
funerals
and
weights
in
the
community.
E
We
also
have
people
that
are
from
down
in
New
Mexico,
and
we
also
have
some
singers
from
North,
Dakota
and
stuff
like
that,
and
we
also
have
singers
that
sometimes
come
and
sing
with
us
from
the
places
we
go,
and
so
we
have
a
lot
of
people
that
come
on
and
sing
with
our
drum
and
they
are
drum.
We
believe
that
drum
brings
all
those
people
to
him
and
die.
E
So
those
are
all
of
our
brothers
that
come
to
us
and
we
take
care
of
that
drum
and
the
drummer's
always
looked
at
first
and
we
never
leave
that
drum
alone
and
being
a
singer.
It's
like
they'd
have
all
these
teachings
that
come
with
it
and
it
teaches
us
all
these
different
values
and
respects
and
stuff
like
that,
and
that's
the
thing
about
our
peoples,
our
people,
that's
the
way
we
worked
is
everything
had
a
purpose
and
everything
that
everybody
didn't
matter.
E
If
there
are
singers
or
if
they're
hunters
or
if
they're
beaters,
they
all
have
teachings
that
went
with
it
and
all
those
teachings
is
what
I
taught
them
all
the
values
and
stuff
like
that.
So,
but
with
that
I
think
we're
going
to
sing
one
more
song
for
you
and
then
you
guys
are
going
to
continue
on
with
your
program.
F
D
Thank
you
so
much
redbone.
I
was
so
excited
to
have
a
red
bone
up
here.
I
forgot
to
mention
what
the
rest
of
the
program
is
going
to
be
about,
so
we're
going
to
have
the
first
speaker
is
going
to
be
Alan
Anderson
on
climate
change
and
pipelines,
and
then
Melissa
Lorenz
is
expert
on
laws
and
treaty
rights
and
then
we'll
have
another
music
break
and
Aaron
Weis
on
what
happened
at
Standing
Rock
to
create
a
movement.
D
It's
awesome
to
see
everybody
here,
one
of
the
things
that
I
want
to
do
quickly
here
and
then
we're
going
to
have
Kathy,
who
is
a
volunteer
for
MN,
350
and
student
talk
about
line
three,
and
what
am
I
going
to
do
here
is
I'm
going
to
give
Alan
his
quick
bio
here
and
introduce
them.
So
we
stay
as
close
as
we
can
on
the
clock.
Alan
Anderson
Northfield
Minnesota
graduated
from
Oregon
State
University
with
a
BS
degree
in
wildlife
science
in
1972.
D
He
co
owned
a
small
business
in
Saint
Cloud
for
five
years
and
served
in
the
Army
National
Guard
joined
the
scouting
profession
in
1978
retired,
in
2012.
After
34
years
of
an
executive
service
with
the
Boy
Scouts
since
retiring
Allen
has
studied
the
issue
of
climate
change
and
its
solutions
and
dedicates
his
time
to
giving
programs
about
rising
co2.
D
The
science
of
climate
change,
Solutions
is
also
an
active
volunteer
member
of
the
citizens,
climate
Lobby
and
has
lobbied
in
Washington
DC,
and
he
and
his
wife
Debbie
have
been
married
for
43
years,
have
two
grown
kids
and
three
little
granddaughters
who
focus
his
concern
about
the
health
of
the
planet
and
where
we
will
leave
it
to
them.
Please
welcome
Allen
Anderson.
G
Well,
thank
you
to
privilege
to
be
here
and
if
I
can
turn
your
attention
to
one
of
the
screens,
whichever
is
easiest
for
you
to
watch
we'll
see
if
all
of
our
technology
cooperates.
I
was
asked
to
speak
a
little
bit
about
climate
change,
kind
of
a
cliff
notes,
presentation
on
that
and
then
impacts
of
pipelines
and
then
some
possible
solutions,
so
we'll
go
quickly
through.
And
if
you
have
questions,
please
do
write
them
down
for
the
panel
portion.
G
So
here
we
go
since
about
1910
the
low
point
on
the
on
the
blue
part
of
the
graph.
Here
you
can
see
that
the
temperature
trend,
while
never
straight
up
in
a
straight
line,
has
been
very
significantly
up
and
since
about
1975,
it's
been
dramatically
rising
and
if
you
think
just
imagine
just
extending
that
line
upward
doesn't
even
have
to
go
any
faster
than
it's
currently
going.
G
We've
already
increased
global
average
temperatures
by
about
one
degree
centigrade
and
scientists
are
saying
that
we
should
stay
below,
increasing
it
one
and
a
half
and
definitely
keep
it
below
two
and
we're
already
at
one.
So
our
challenge
is
great.
The
the
rising
curve
is
fast,
2014
was
the
hottest
year.
2015
was
hotter.
Still
by
far
in
2016,
which
doesn't
appear
on
this
graph
was
even
hotter.
It's
a
trendline
that
we
cannot
stay
on.
G
We
have
known
for
almost
10
millennia
to
a
new
permanently
warmer
climate,
and
if
we
don't
quit
burning
co2,
it
will
just
keep
shifting
farther
in
the
direction
of
even
hotter.
So
the
scientists
are
telling
that
really
everything
is
at
risk
from
climate
change
and
it's
not
something
that's
going
to
happen
in
the
distant
future.
It's
happening
right
now.
Torrential
rains
right
here
in
Minnesota.
G
G
I
had,
along
with
half
of
my
neighbors
our
houses,
our
roofs
and
our
houses
destroyed
by
golf-ball-sized,
hail
and
there's
just
more
of
that
on
the
way,
with
more
erratic
weather
and
in
other
parts
of
the
world.
Millions
of
climate
refugees
already
and
people
in
low-lying
Pacific
Islands
voting
as
small
countries
like
the
country
of
Kiribati
to
abandon
their
ancestral
home
and
move
to
New,
Zealand
or
some
other
place
that
will
have
them,
because
their
homeland
that
they've
lived
on
for
tens
of
generations
is
being
swamped
by
rising
seas
and
I
mentioned
Miami
Beach.
G
This
is
a
picture
of
blue
sky
flooding
on
a
on
an
ice
otherwise
nice
day,
and
it's
only
going
to
get
worse
and
as
I
mentioned,
property
values
are
beginning
to
be
impacted
there,
and
this
is
a
small
print
3des.
But
there's
a
lot,
it's
really
becoming
a
more
bipartisan
issue.
Although
it's
been
politicized,
it's
a
scientific
issue
and
we
should
listen
to
the
scientists
and
move
ahead
based
on
them
and
if
you
skim
those
probably
some
of
the
most
gripping
ones.
The
recent
American
Petroleum
Institute
report
says
few
things
threaten
America's
future
prosperity.
G
More
than
climate
change
and
oil
companies
calling
for
a
carbon
tax
on
their
product,
why
would
they
do
that?
Because
they've
accepted
the
science
and
they've
got
grandkids
too
so
pipelines?
This
is
a
pipeline
that
burst
and
was
dug
up
and
is
being
replaced,
but
a
lot
of
these
pipelines
are
40
and
50
years
old
and
unless
we
start
replacing
them
before
they
burst
we're
just
going
to
have
a
rising
frequency
of
them
blowing
up
and
the
when
they
do.
G
It's
always
ugly
here
are
just
some
pictures
of
pipelines,
flooding
farmers,
fields
on
rivers
and
then
catching
fire
and
flowing
through
a
residential,
neighborhood
and
I.
Don't
know
if
you
can
see
the
sheen
in
the
diagram,
but
that
entire
surface
of
that
river,
the
Kalamazoo
River,
is
oil
and
wet
lawn,
wetlands
being
really
almost
irreparable
damaged
and,
of
course,
any
wildlife
that
gets
messed
up
with
with
the
oil
is
certainly
in
serious
trouble.
This
is
a
picture
of
the
the
black
dots
of
pictures
of
pipeline
breaks
and
spills.
G
G
We
have
to
find
a
better
way
and
there
are
better
ways
so
pipeline
spills
in
Minnesota
are
Unduli
as
ever,
and
these
are
just
the
Enbridge
oil
company
crude
spills
in
Minnesota,
some
as
much
as
five
hundred
thousand
gallons
of
crude
and
so
as
bad
as
those
spills
are
to
the
local
property
into
any
property
owners
that
are
involved
on
a
bigger
scale.
Burning
fossil
fuels
is
taking
us
into
a
completely
unsustainable
and
uncharted
territory.
At
the
bottom
of
this
graph,
you
see
a
red
line,
which
is
carbon
dioxide
levels.
G
The
blue
line
is
temperature
levels
and
for
the
last
actually
800,000
years
and
perhaps
longer
co2
never
got
above
280
parts
per
million.
Today,
it's
at
400
parts
per
million
and
at
our
current
rate,
if
we
don't
change,
our
ways
will
be
somewhere
between
800
and
1,200
parts
per
million,
and
you
can
see
how
unbelievably
out
of
the
natural
cycle,
that
is,
a
global,
uncontrolled,
irreversible
experiment
on
our
kids
planet.
G
So
simply
put
if
we
wish
to
have
a
sustainable
life
for
our
kids
and
grandkids.
We've
got
to
keep
fossil
fuel
on
the
ground,
so
we
don't
need
pipelines
if
we
achieve
keeping
them
in
the
ground,
pipelines
and
tankers
will
be
obsolete
and
we
must
challenge
the
continued
use
of
fossil
fuels
everywhere.
We
can
champion
the
fastest
possible
transition
to
renewables.
G
There
are
solutions,
stop
burning
coal
transition,
oil
and
gas
as
fast
as
we
can
improve
agriculture
and
use
every
other
technological
thing
that
we
possibly
can
wind
and
solar,
which
is
growing
like
gangbusters
and
by
the
way
enough
solar
falls
on
North
America,
just
in
a
tiny
portion
of
the
Panhandle
to
power
the
entire
country.
If
we
got
serious
about
doing
solar
and
obviously
we
wouldn't
put
it
there-
we
dispersed
it
across
the
country,
but
there's
enough
free
energy
coming
in
every
day
for
all
the
power
we
need
there's
a
new
killer.
G
A
lot
of
concerns
in
this
country,
but
France
gets
80%
of
all
their
electricity
from
nuclear
with
no
accidents,
revenue,
neutral,
carbon
fee
and
dividend
is
something
that
CCL
and
other
groups
are
working
on.
Tesla's
building
electric
cards
and
mega
batteries
to
store
the
electricity
from
solar
and
wind
and
a
lot
of
car
companies
now
are
investing
hundreds
of
millions
of
dollars
in
perfecting
the
hydrogen
fuel
cell
car
and
imagine
the
day
when
rooftop
solar,
shingles
collect
electricity
charge.
G
G
Elon
Musk
is
starting
his
solar,
collector
shingle
factory.
So
all
those
things
are
already
here,
but
one
of
the
best
solutions,
because
if
all
the
people
who
do
do
understand
the
issue
and
really
go
after
it
did
something.
That's
not
good
enough.
We
need
systemic
solutions.
Carbon
fee
and
dividend
is
one
of
the
best
and
the
way
that
works
is
oil,
gas
and
coal,
as
they
come
out
of
the
ground,
are
taxed
with
a
fee,
and
a
hundred
percent
of
that
money
is
refunded
to
American
households
and
because
of
that
tax.
G
The
price
of
a
lot
of
things
go
up,
but
the
fact
that
the
rebate
has
gone
back
to
families
keeps
pretty
much
the
lower
sixty
to
seventy
percent
of
the
population
better
off
and
then
non-fossil
fuel
renewables
are
become
cheaper
and
more
competitive,
and
so
then
the
forces
the
market
take
over
and
help
us
transition
quickly
and
here
down
the
corner.
The
CEO
of
Shell
Oil
Company
said
this
year.
Carbon
pricing
encourages
the
fastest
and
most
efficient
way
to
reduce
co2
emissions,
and
here
are
some
of
the
benefits
of
carbon
fee
and
dividend
net.
G
Two
million
more
jobs
reduces
sea
emissions.
Co2
emissions
faster
than
any
other
system
that
has
been
come
up
with
dividend
increases,
the
dividend
increases
household,
family
incomes
saves
lives,
something
like
two
hundred
and
twenty
five
thousand
American
lives
just
in
the
first
twenty
years,
just
by
improving
air
quality
and
a
net
1.3
trillion
dollars
more
in
GDP
than
if
we
did
not
have
a
carbon
fee
and
dividend
and
at
the
bottom
there's
a
new
GOP
climate,
Leadership
Council
headed
I,
George,
Schultz,
James,
Baker
and
Hank
Paulson,
and
they
agree
that
this
is
the
way
forward.
G
So
what
can
we
do?
There's
a
lot
of
ways
to
make
a
difference.
I
hope
that
you'll
stop
by
the
CCL
booth
on
the
way
out
and
you
can
get
a
handout
that
lists
all
these
things
and
much
more
as
things
to
do
and
how
you
can
make
a
difference.
Personally,
we
are
going
to
leave
a
legacy
to
our
children
and
the
question
is:
what
kind
of
legacy
will
it
be?
G
Will
we
listen
to
the
people
who
say
everything
is
fine,
no
need
to
worry,
or
will
we
listen
to
the
climate
scientists
who
are
telling
us
we
need
to
urgently
reduce
co2
emissions.
If
we
care
about
future
generations,
will
we
be
good
stewards
of
the
earth
or
to
spoil
it,
and
these
are
the
my
three
little
granddaughters
and
I
in
that
envision
them
asking
me:
are
you
and
the
other
grown-ups
taking
care
of
our
little
blue
planet
grandpa?
G
D
Very
nice,
thank
you.
So
much
Alan
now
for
just
a
quick,
nonpartisan
blurb
for
me
again,
I
wouldn't
be
here:
I
wouldn't
have
a
radio
show
if
they
would
have
put
the
oil
line
through
Bismarck
likely
originally
we're
going
to,
but
instead
they
want
to
put
it
close
to
Indian
land
and
on
treaty
land.
So
I'm
getting
really
happy
to
see
your
information
and
the
information
that's
going
to
come
up.
Our
next
presenter
is
Melissa.
D
Lorenz
Melissa
is
an
attorney
at
Hogan,
Adams
PLLC,
an
Indian
law
firm
in
Saint
Paul.
Our
practice
has
included
three
D
rights,
litigation,
environmental
law
and
Indian
Gaming
and
finance.
She
has
also
published
an
article
about
the
Army
Corps
of
Engineers
compliance
with
the
National
Historic
Preservation
Act,
which
is
one
of
the
issues
in
Standing
Rock
case
in
the
Standing
Rock
case.
Please
welcome,
Melissa
Lee
runs.
H
So,
as
Alan
discussed,
there
are
some
really
severe
environmental
issues
that
are
caused
by
oil
pipelines,
but
all
of
those
issues
are
amplified
when
those
environmental
impacts
interplay
with
treaty
rights,
and
when
we
talk
about
treaty
rights
just
like
when
we
talk
about
anything
in
the
law,
we
need
to
kind
of
go
back
to
the
beginning
and
think
about
the
foundational
principles
that
underlie
federal
Indian
law.
I
just
threw
up
this
map
to
show
kind
of
some
version
of
what
this
continent
looked
like
before.
H
They
were
distinct
in
some
ways:
the
court
in
the
Supreme
Court
from
other
nations,
but
nonetheless
they
had
inherent
rights
and
continued
to
have
inherent
rights.
These
rights
were
not
given
to
them
by
the
United
States.
Unlike
kind
of
the
way,
some
people
will
talk
about
treaty
rights.
I
read
an
article
the
other
day
where
someone
was
talking
about
how
land
was
given
to
standing
rock
by
a
treaty
and
that's
not
how
it
works.
H
They
still
retain,
even
if
the
tree
doesn't
necessarily
say
so.
So
you
can't
just
read
a
treaty
and
know
what
rights
the
tribe
has
under
the
treaty
sometimes
tree.
You
do
specifically
talk
about
certain
rights
to
hunt
and
fish
and
that
language
can
be
really
helpful
and
powerful,
but
the
Supreme
Court
has
recognized
for
a
long
time
that
the
that
these
rights
are
inherent
rights,
they're,
not
rights
that
were
given
to
tribes
on
paper
and
kind
of
along
with
that
is
the
Windsors
doctrine,
which
is
that
tribes
when
they
retain
reservations.
H
They
also
reserved
all
the
water
that
they
needed
to
continue
their
way
of
life
or
just
fill
the
purpose
of
the
treaty.
So
a
treaty
doesn't
necessarily
talk
about
water
rights,
but
if
the
tribe
has
a
treaty
and
has
reservation
land,
there
are
water
rights
that
come
along
with
that,
and
those
water
rights
will
actually
trump
water
rights
by
users
that
come
later
like
in
the
western
United
States.
H
You
gain
water
rights
by
using
the
Water
Tribes.
Don't
have
to
do
that
because
they
have
their
rights
reserved
by
treaty
and
Indian
law.
Scholars
also
say
that
there's
an
implied
right
to
habitat
protection
in
treaties
and
when
you
think
about
it,
it
makes
sense,
because
why
would
a
tribe
negotiate
so
hard
to
retain
certain
rights
to
something
that's
very
important
to
them
like
wild
rice
or
fish?
If
that
resource
was
going
to
be
gone
in
a
few
hundred
years,
that
doesn't
make
any
sense
that
doesn't
fulfill
the
purpose
of
the
treaty.
H
It's
kind
of
complicated,
because
nobody
really
thought
that
would
happen
back.
Then
nobody
thought
that
we
would
damage
the
environment
as
much
as
we
have,
but
there
is
some
case
law
that's
starting
to
indicate
that
tribes
may
have
a
right
to
habitat
protection
under
some
circumstances
and
that's
still
very
much
being
fleshed
out
in
the
courts.
But
this
case
United
States,
v
Washington
came
out
in
the
Ninth
Circuit
last
year
and
that
was
kind
of
a
landmark
case
on
the
implied
treaty
right
to
habitat
protection.
H
Construction
treaties
with
Indian
tribes
are
interpreted
differently
than
trees
with
other
nations
because
of
the
unique
history
between
tribes
of
the
United
States,
the
history
of
colonization.
The
first
is
that
Indian
treaties
are
interpreted
as
Indians
would
have
understood
them
at
the
time
that
the
trees
were
made
and
that's
because
treaties
were
not
negotiated
and
well.
These
were
negotiated
in
English,
not
in
native
languages,
and
they
were
written
in
English
and
a
lot
of
the
native
negotiators,
maybe
didn't
speak.
H
English
or
English
certainly
wasn't
their
first
language
and
they
were
relying
on
translators
that
were
provided
by
the
United
States.
So
there
was
an
inherent
power
imbalance
there
and
also
it's
entirely
possible
that
things
are
mistranslated,
because
there
can
be
a
big
difference
between
the
way
you
express
concepts
in
native
languages
and
in
english
that
could
have
easily
just
gotten
lost
in
translation.
The
other
two
principles
are
that
if
you
have
two
possible
interpretations
of
a
treaty,
you
basically
construe
it
in
favor
of
the
Indians
and
that's
kind
of
for
similar
reasons.
H
Tribes
are
not
represented
by
lawyers
when
they
were
negotiating.
The
United
States
was
sort
of
assuming
a
dual
role
of
represent
tribes
and
representing
the
United
States
itself,
and
usually
in
contract
law,
that
when
you
have
that
kind
of
an
imbalance,
relationship
and
a
very
coercive
relationship,
the
contract
would
be
invalid,
but
the
Supreme
Court
has
instead
to
instead
of
taking
kind
of
a
contract
law
approach.
H
This
is
the
Dakota
axis
pipeline
in
red
on
that
map
and
the
kind
of
light
gray
is
the
1851
treaty
Territory
and
the
you
see
the
reservations
there
also
so
something
people
say
when
they
talk
about
Standing
Rock
is
well
it
does
it
go
through
the
reservation,
but
it's
whether
or
not
it
goes
directly
through
the
reservation.
It
has
a
big
impact
on
the
reservation
and
it
also
impacts
other
treaty
resources.
H
H
H
But
the
reason
that
we
have
separate
reservations
here
now,
instead
of
just
one
Great
Sioux
Reservation,
that
was
reserved
by
the
1868
treaty,
is
because
Congress
took
those
lands,
so
this
areas
continues
to
be
disputed.
For
the
reasons
we
talked
about,
it's
not
easy
to
get
a
court
to
enforce
those
treaties,
because
I
guess
the
part
that
I
didn't
mention
was
talking
about
the
cans
of
treaty
construction
are
giving
you
historical
and
linguistic
experts
to
establish
what
Indians
understood
at
the
time
of
the
treaty.
H
H
Since
we
pretend
that
the
United
States
negotiated
in
times
of
interest,
we
also
there's
a
similar
rule
of
statutory
construction
that,
when
the
United
States
complies
with
statutes
or
enact
statutes,
we
pretend
or
assume
that
the
United
States
is
acting
and
tribes
best
interest.
Also.
So,
when
we're
dealing
with
environmental
statutes
like
the
National
Environmental
Policy
Act,
we
say
that
the
Corps
of
Engineers
has
a
trust
responsibility
to
tribes,
to
act
in
their
best
interest
and
to
consider
the
impacts
on
their
reserve
rights.
H
Maybe
I
should
provide
a
little
background,
so
I'm
not
sure
how
well-known
line
three
is
but
line.
Three
is
a
tar
sands
pipeline
that
runs
through
Minnesota
and
in
the
black
on
that
map
you
can
see
where
the
pipeline
is
right
now
it
goes
through
a
lot
of
treaty
territory
and
also
a
couple
of
reservations,
Fondulac
and
leech
lake,
and
I
think,
though
I
think
it
also.
H
This
map
shows
the
oil
spills
that
have
happened
along
the
way
I
believe
and
the
red
line
is
where
Enbridge
is
trying
to
reroute
line
three
so
they're
trying
to
basically
expand
and
reroute
that
oil
pipeline
through
Minnesota
and
they
want
to
leave
the
existing
pipelines
in
the
ground.
So
it's
interesting
to
me
that
this
time,
they're
not
going
through
the
reservations
but
they're
still
going
through
I
was
a
gues
agnostic,
an
amount
of
treaty
territory,
the
1837
treaty
and
1854
treaty.
H
Both
specifically
talked
about
hunting
and
fishing
rights,
and
so
the
1837
is
kind
of
the
the
lower
portion
there.
That
was
the
Mille
Lacs
case
that
went
to
the
United
States
Supreme
Court.
So
it's
been
definitively
established
that
the
Ojibwe
bands
retained
treaty
rights
there
and
the
1854
treaty
was
litigated
in
the
federal
district
court.
H
So
it's
also
been
established
that
there
are
treaty
rights
in
that
area.
1855
treaty
not
been
litigated
and
that
one's
a
little
bit
less
obvious,
I,
guess
or
more
challenging
for
the
tribes,
because
there
is
not
expressed
language
about
hunting
or
fishing
rights,
but
that
certainly
doesn't
mean
that
those
rights
don't
exist
in
the
1855
treaty
territories.
H
But
it
means
that
I'll
have
to
do
a
little
more
work
to
establish
that
oh
and
yeah,
so
I,
so
I
was
just
going
to
mention
to
another
part
of
treaty
rights
litigation.
Is
you
kind
of
needs,
a
write-back
pattern
to
get
the
court
to
address
the
question
and
its
court
to
pay
attention
to
the
question?
And
so
that's
why
you
see
you
see
things
like
fishin's
happening.
H
I,
don't
know
if
you've
heard
about
that
in
the
news
where
tribal
members
go
out
and
they
harvest
with
fishing
nets,
which
violates
Minnesota
state
laws
because
they're
trying
to
get
a
citation.
That's
because
they're
trying
to
get
in
court
so
that
the
issue
can
be
litigated
of
whether
they
retain
a
treaty
right
and
that
gets
to
be
really
contentious
between
the
native
harvesters
and
non-native
harvesters
I.
Think,
because
that
kind
of
historical
context,
sort
of
gets
lost
somewhere.
When
we're
talking
about
Indian
treaty
rights,
so
I
guess
that's
all
I've
got.
D
Thank
you
so
much
Melissa
as
we're
waiting
for
redbone
to
come
back,
hope,
they're,
moving
they're
heading
towards
here.
One
of
the
things
I
would
like
to
mention
too
about
line
three.
Is
that
not
only
do
they
want
to
reroute
if
they
want
to
keep
the
old
pipeline
still
in
the
ground,
the
leaky
old,
50
year
old
pipeline?
D
One
thing
we
do
know
about
pipelines
is
a
do
leak
eventually
leak,
and
so
my
name
is
Joaquin
jihad
a
and
that's
my
native
name,
which
is
myname,
and
that
means
just
in
thunder
and
I'm
a
proud,
also
a
proud
member
of
Ho
Chunk
nation
of
you
know:
I
can't
wait
until
Erin
comes
up
where
and
I
wrote
your
own
bio
they're,
so
good
we
didn't
get
one.
So
I
wrote
one
out
for
you.
Wait
until
you
hear
it
I'm,
making
more
notes
to
I'm
thinking,
hey.
E
D
D
D
One
of
the
things
I'd
like
to
say
too,
is
that
you're
you
work
for
under
the
earth
now
and
you
were
the
media
liaison
for
the
international
indigenous
youth
council
and
was
the
media
coordinator
at
sacred
stone
when
I
first
came
across
Melissa,
that
was
after
146,
water
protectors
that
were
prayerfully,
praying
and
were
arrested
and
I.
Remember
you
were
worried
about
your
youth
that
you
were
in
charge
of
and
where
they
were
going
to
be
sent,
and
it
was
a
very
stressful
time.
Oh.
D
I
Hello,
ed
Benge,
Oh,
chica
Lester,
a
cheesy,
my
name
is
Ann
wives,
I'm
from
the
Hickory
Apache
nation
and
the
GU
know
Pablo
in
New.
Mexico
I
was
raised
here
in
Minneapolis
as
a
youth
and
eventually
am
now
returning
after
hiking
in
Standing
Rock.
If
you
don't
mind,
I'm
going
to
turn
on
my
timer,
because
I
like
to
talk
and
I,
don't
want
anybody
to
have
to
sit
here
and
listen
to
get
me
getting
too
wrapped
up.
I
also
want
to
say
thank
you
to
the
young
men.
I
Singing
I
was
mentored
here
in
Minneapolis
by
a
man
who
recently
passed
away.
His
name
was
Johnny
Smith
and
he
was
one
of
the
most
incredible
men.
I've
ever
met
in
my
life
and
he's
from
the
resignation
which
and
also
thank
you
to
the
people
of
this
land.
This
is
so-called
Bloomington,
so
called
Minnesota
and
it
actually
belonged
to
finished
nabe
people
swimming,
which
I
guess
a
few
things
stood
up
to
me.
I
While
I
was
listening
to
these
talks,
it's
really
hard
for
me
to
come
into
spaces
like
this
and
hear
people
say
that
the
United
States
probably
didn't
know
what
they
were
doing
or
that
they
were
acting
in
the
best
interest
of
people
that
they
were
ultimately
conquering.
You
know
there
was
a
genocide
that
was
committed
on
United,
States,
American
soil.
My
people
are
the
remnants
of
what
is
left,
we're
less
than
1%
of
the
population.
Now
so
I
feel
it's
safe
to
say
that
the
United
States
was
never
trying.
I
They
knew
what
they
were
doing.
Hitler
came
here,
so
did
South
Africa
to
figure
out
how
to
set
up
their
reservations
because
they
like
the
United
States
model.
So
much
with
that
I
also
I,
guess
a
lot
of
people
I'm
sure
want
to
know
about.
Standing
Rock
want
to
make
it
abundantly
clear
that
I'm
standing
Rock,
while
it
was
a
huge
catalyst
for
movements
for
indigenous
lives,
treaty
rights,
land
rights,
cultural
cornerstones.
I
I
They
do
not
plan
to
take
this
pipeline
out
of
the
earth
right
they're
going
to
leave
it
there,
they've
known
that
it
has
been
out
of
commission
that
it
hasn't
been
running
in
the
way
it
should
for
about
40
years
now,
they've
known
that
it's
been
casually
leaking
that
it
some
with,
if
they
call
them
birthed
our
gas
or
like
parts
right
pipeline
parts.
It's
really
cute
and
funny
until
you
realize
that
what
they're
doing
is
they're
emitting
these
gases
that
are
impacting
on
the
lives
of
Minnesotans
I'm.
I
Looking
around
the
audience
here
and
I
think
I'm,
one
of
maybe
four
or
five
people,
that's
under
the
age
of
40.
So
one
of
the
things
that
I
think
and
would
like
to
impress
upon
you
is
that
I'm,
a
youth
worker
right,
I
I,
know
that
the
stuff
we
talked
about
is
boring.
The
kids
don't
want
to
hear
it.
They
don't
want
to
listen.
I
We
don't
know
if
they're
really
going
to
be
able
to
sit
still,
but
also
one
of
the
big
things
that
I
learned
in
Standing
Rock
is
that
if
they're
kids
that
are
around
that
are
given
the
opportunity
to
do
something
great,
they
do
I,
don't
know
if
many
of
you
know,
but
the
Standing
Rock,
no
daffle
movement
was
actually
started
by
the
youth.
Some
of
those
youths
were
part
of
the
one,
my
muse
movement
and
they
ran
actually
several
different
runs.
I
Long
distance
runs
before
ultimately
running
all
the
way
from
North
Dakota
to
Washington
DC,
with
a
petition
saying:
hey,
President
Obama.
We
really
really
don't
want
this
pipeline
in
our
territories
because
we
want
to
see
a
future
for
ourselves
and
for
our
children.
Ultimately,
President
Obama
did
not
step
in.
We
know
that
because
I
can't
even
say
that
Trump
overturned
those
those
statements-
and
you
know
those
executive
actions
right
because
he
has
personal
investments
in
these
pipelines-
and
he
said
now
we're
going
to
let
it
go
through.
I
We
care
about
the
kids,
not
a
lot.
You
know
not
enough
to
let
them
live,
but
enough
that
they're
gonna
exist
for
right
now
and
fill
my
pocket.
So
let's
go
for
it
and
we
we
had
these
views
right.
They
were,
they
were
given
the
opportunity,
they
were
told,
hey
we're
behind
you,
and
so
they
kept
doing
these
incredible
things.
You
know
a
lot
of
people
look
at
Standing
Rock
and
they
say.
Oh,
my
gosh
Tina
look
at
how
violent
they
were
look
at
how
how
much
they
didn't
listen
to
the
larvae.
I
I
also
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
not
just
the
youth,
but
about
honor
the
earth
in
what
it
is
we're
about.
You
know
a
lot
of
people
see
us
fighting
these
pipelines
and
I
like
okay.
You
know
I'm
the
area
and
put
them
in
my
pipeline
box
and
I'm
going
to
shut
that
file
and
store
it
for
later.
We're
also
really
invested
in
tribal
sovereignty,
food
sovereignty,
tribal
rights
and
cultural
cornerstones,
as
has
been
mentioned,
wild
rice
fishing
and
our
sugar
bushes
right
I
went
a
couple
weeks
ago
with
some
family.
I
In
Wisconsin
we
went
out
to
the
sugar
bush.
The
young
boys
got
their
hand
drums.
They
realized
that
I
have
like
somewhat
of
a
network
on
social
media
and
they
were
like
if
she
posts
this
video,
we're
going
to
be
famous,
and
you
know
like
45,000
views
later,
like
everywhere,
I
went,
there
was
a
hand
room
following
me.
I
Holding
her
dignified
rage
and
saying
hey
guys,
can
do
whatever
you
want
to
because
I'm
just
a
girl
from
the
res,
just
like
you
doing
something
greater
than
myself
right,
they're,
inspired
and
I
think
that
a
charge
to
all
of
you
who
appear
to
be
parents,
grandparents
that
are
in
the
room
is
that
next
time,
even
if
it's
boring
bring
your
kids
because
ultimately
most
of
you
will
die
before
them
back
to
the
matter
and
those
kids
need
to
know
what
it
is.
It's
going
to
impact
the
rest
of
their
lives
right
now.
I
We
are
not
leaving
them
an
opportunity
for
a
very
long
life,
and
you
know,
as
you
saw
there,
were
pictures
of
the
Kalamazoo
River
spill.
I
met
a
man
a
two
weeks
ago.
I
was
speaking
in
michigan
at
albion
college,
just
some
youth
there,
and
this
man
told
me
that
he
had
grown
up
alongside
the
kalamazoo
river
right.
He
walked
out
tried
every
day
into
it,
as
in
his
backyard.
He
loved
that
river
in
the
same
way
that
I'm
sure
I
love
the
Mississippi.
I
I
They
told
everyone
in
Kalamazoo,
you
know
here
we
brought
you
these
water
filters,
if
you
just
sign
here
for
us
that
would
be
great,
and
so
these
people
desperate
to
do
anything
right
to
save
their
children.
They
sign
these
waivers.
Not
thinking
find
out
later
that
em
bridge
had
actually
taken
people
and
sent
them
out
and
said,
give
them
water
filters
have
been
signed.
These
documents
they're,
probably
not
going
to
read
them,
and
they
signed
away
their
rights
to
fight
Enbridge.
This
is
a
company
right
now
that
has
minnesota
in
its
back.
I
It
contains
on
the
scratch
track
pipeline
bill,
but
actually
going
to
make
it
so
that,
if
pushed
through
all
the
way
through
Enbridge
will
be
able
to
start
construction
on
line
three.
This
numa
line
three,
not
the
one
that
they're
replacing
on
July
1st
2017,
so
we
have
about
two
and
a
half
months
to
get
our
ducks
in
a
row
right
and
also
there's
on
these
other
two
outrageous
clauses
that
would
exempt
all
feature
and
oil
gas
lines
from
the
certificate
of
need
process,
basically
making
it.
I
I
Although
a
user
is
and
I'm
told
it's
jobs,
right
jobs
in
the
United
States
everyone's
looking
for
them,
while
the
thing
about
pipeline
jobs
is
that
most
of
them
are
construction,
jobs,
they're,
blue-collar
work
and
only
about
30
of
them
on
average
are
left
once
the
big
mass
production
is
finished
right,
we
have
more
jobs
in
cleaning
up
these
abandoned
pipelines
than
we
do
in
actually
creating
long-term
positions
for
Minnesotans.
A
lot
of
Minnesotans
are
looking
at
this
pipeline.
I
They're
hangul
I,
like
oil
right
I,
like
my
truck
I,
like
my
car
me
too,
I
know
that
tomorrow
isn't
going
to
end
the
fossil
fuels
industry
right.
If
I
got
everyone
on
my
page,
it
wouldn't
stop.
We
wouldn't
know
how
to
transition
into
the
next
phase.
What
I'm
saying
is
that
we
need
to
start
making
a
path
to
get
there,
as
was
mentioned
by
Allen.
You
know
there.
There
are
several
ways
we
can
do
it,
but
it
doesn't
make
the
most
money
immediately.
I
So
people
are
not
looking
at
that
they're,
not
looking
at
the
fact
that
pipelines
and
their
companies
in
that
oil
is
actually
upside
down
in
debt
and
that
they
are
borrowing
money
to
give
back
to
their
investors,
to
say:
hey
we're
going
to
do
it
as
long
as
we
get
this
completed,
then
we'll
just
get
you
everything
back.
It's
almost
akin
to
being
told
we're
going
to
build
this
wall,
it's
going
to
be
paid
for
it
by
somebody
else
eventually
and
we'll
get
there
right.
I
I
am
NOT
a
big
fan
of
credit
cards,
I'm,
not
big
fan
of
owing
people,
money
that
I
do
not
have,
and
so
I'm
not
entirely
sure
about
how
I
feel
about
these
pipelines
and
how
so
about
oil
and
how
I
feel
about
these
walls
that
are
going
to
be
built
without
any
capital
that
is
currently
invested.
Another
thing
that
I
wanted
to
talk
to
you
all
about
is
how
you
can
help
here
in
the
state
of
Minnesota
right.
One
of
the
things
that
robert
mentioned
is
that
I
got
escorted
out
of
the
state
capitol.
I
I
You
know
they
were
used
that
were
out
there
and
they
were
fighting
for
their
lives,
and
that
was
what
they
would
say
and
they
telephone
oh
you're,
using
kids
as
human
shields.
No,
these
kids
know
what's
going
on
and
they
want
to
be
a
part
of
it
and
they
realize
that
no
one
else
is
doing
it
so
they're
stepping
up
that
was.
I
That
was
a
big
thing
for
me,
and
so,
when
I
went
to
the
State
Capitol
the
other
day,
I
write
I
was
there
with
some
of
the
youth
that
I've
started
working
with
here
in
the
Twin
Cities,
and
they
said
we
want
to
get
involved.
We
want
our
voices
to
be
heard
and
we
don't
want
it
just
to
be
any
voices.
We
want
it
to
be
indigenous
voices.
We
want
them
to
know
that
we
exist,
we
are
not
caricatures
of
who
we
actually
are
we're.
Not
the
Hollywood
Indian
we're
real
we're
right
now
we're
Anishinabe.
I
We
want
to
look,
we
want
to
stand
up
so
I
said.
Alright,
let's
go,
we
went
and
we
had
a
rally.
It
was
really
really
good.
There
is
a
lot
of
people
there.
They
were
super
supportive.
We
were
following
every
single
rule
that
we
needed
to
follow.
We
were
well
within
our
constitutional
right
and
we
got
it
to
the
chambers.
We
were
watching.
All
of
the
representatives
on
the
House
floor
on
their
cell
phones
right
there
discussing
this
massive
bill
and
I,
see
them
playing
candy
crush
checking
their
Facebook
taking
pictures
on
Instagram
right.
I
There
were
more
than
one
baby
on
the
floor
right
there
were.
There
were
legislators
there
with
their
children
on
the
floor,
but
they
heard
denying
climate
change,
and
then
they
were
saying
you
know
we're
here,
fighting
for
our
children,
we're
doing
this
for
our
children,
the
good
children
American
need
protection
and
they
had
those
kids
in
their
lap
and
they
were
telling
everyone
else
in
the
room
that
climate
change
was
not
real.
The
kid
sitting.
Next
to
me,
they
were
like.
Are
they
serious
and
I
was
like
yeah
and
they
were
like
our
taxes?
I
Pay
for
this
and
I
was
like.
Oh,
you
know
and
I
didn't
know
what
to
do.
There's
one
particular
representative
I
believe
his
name
is
Pat.
Garoppolo
yeah
I
feel
like
I'm
in
a
room
full
of
my
friends.
Now
he
was
condescending
to
his
Democratic
opponent.
Who
was
saying
that
you
know
we
need
to
just
stop
pandering
right
to
these
companies.
These
pipeline
companies.
We
needed
to
stop
pandering
to
the
people
that
say,
climate
change
isn't
real.
I
For
you
know
all
the
next
generations-
and
you
know
he
was
complaining
about
how
some
process
wasn't
followed
and
it
was
a
whole
lot
of
semantics
that
didn't
make
any
sense
to
anybody
else
in
the
room,
but
him
and
he
kept
talking-
and
you
know
she-
she
stood
up
to
say
something
and
he
was
like
man
you're
getting
emotional
right
because
she's,
a
woman,
you're
getting
emotional-
and
he
says
these
things
right,
because
it's
common
belief,
women
are
emotional
Wiimote
too
much.
We
have
too
many
opinions.
I
We're
only
here
for
one
purpose:
we're
just
going
to
do
all
of
the
things
that
we've
always
done
forever
because
that's
work,
and
you
know
he
was
being
really
rude.
I
am
raised
by
my
grandma's
I,
don't
know
my
grandma's
were
really
tough
and
my
grandpa
uplifted
women
right.
He
was
a
veteran.
He
is
like
the
nicest
kindest
sweetest
most
dedicated
Christian
Trump
supporter
I've
ever
met,
and
it
blows
my
mind
right
because
I
am
the
antithesis
of
everything
that
he
supports,
but
I
love
him.
I
So
I
understand
that
except
engine
areas,
these
oxygen
Gary
engine,
Ariens
and
I'm,
trying
to
make
space
for
them
and
say
you
know,
hey
I,
understand
what's
going
on
because
y'all
have
this
perspective,
and
this
is
how
it
was
back
then
I'm
going
to
try-
and
you
know,
acknowledge
that.
But
he
kept
condescending
to
this
woman
and
these
kids
were
watching
it
right
they're,
watching
what
their
taxes
are
paying
for.
I
They're,
watching
the
process
they're
watching
these
legislators
on
their
cell
phones,
they're,
watching
how
their
futures
are
going
to
be
impacted
by
this
omnibus
bill,
and
no
one
is
saying
anything
to
this
man
who
is
being
so
rude
to.
Of
course,
me
I
stand
up
and
I,
you
know
I,
wait
and
I,
wait
and
I.
Think
man
we
had
such
a
good
rally
and
then
somebody
down
on
the
floor
says
well.
There
was
just
really
great
singing
out
there.
I
Let's
just
commend
them
on
how
good
they
are
at
banging
a
drum
right,
I'm,
going
to
bang
a
drum
next
time.
I
go
home,
not
like
it's
a
sacred
thing,
not
like
it's
something
we've
been
doing
for
thousands
of
years
pre-contact,
because
it's
a
cultural
cornerstone
of
who
we
are
as
human
being,
but
because
it
sounds
great,
you
can
find
it
on
Spotify,
so
I
start
yelling
and
I
say:
hey
we're
up
here!
We're
watching
you!
You
know
we
don't
appreciate
the
way
this
process
is
being
run.
We
don't
appreciate
watching
you
condescend
to
women.
I
We
don't
appreciate
the
fact
that
you're
denying
climate
change,
kids
lives
are
at
stake
and
we
need
to
start
doing
something
about
it.
Right,
Minnesotan
lives
are
at
stake.
It's
not
just
about
the
economy,
it's
not
just
about
property
value.
It's
not
just
about
tourism!
It's
about
the
fact
that
they
are
strategically
placing
these
pipelines
because
they
don't
want
to
have
to
go
through
tribal
jurisdiction,
newsflash
for
everybody,
this
unceded
territory.
We
did
not
give
it
up.
It
was
stolen
from
us
and
we
are
trying
to
work
in
conjunction
with
everybody
else.
I
I
They
kicked
me
out
and
I'm
almost
at
a
time,
I'm
really
good,
this
okay.
They
they
kicked
me
out,
but
the
point
of
all
of
that
is
that
there
there
are
ways
and
there
are
avenues
to
do
it
right
and
the
youth
are
going
to
see.
People
like
me
that
are
standing
in
the
face
of
adversity
that
are
saying:
hey,
United,
States
government
state
of
Minnesota.
The
way
you've
been
doing
things
for
less
you
know,
200
plus
years
hasn't
been
going
so
well.
You
haven't
been
stewards
of
the
land.
I
You
haven't
taken
care
of
the
people
that
are
living
on
this
land
and
now
we
need
to
stand
up
and
say:
hey
no
more.
We
need
help
of
all
Minnesotans
to
do
that.
Like
I
said
on
lines,
three
hits
hurts
kind
of
a
cluster
cuss
of
a
situation.
There
are
a
lot
of
reasons
why
it's
bad.
There
are
a
lot
of
reasons
where
people
think
it's
good.
I
Ultimately,
they
think
that
they're
going
to
reroute
it
our
job
as
Minnesotans
I,
truly
believe
in
our
job,
and
you
know,
as
an
organizer
for
honor
the
earth
and
as
an
indigenous
woman
is
to
say
that
we
are
not
going
to
allow
pipelines
anymore.
You
know
oil
oil
is
not
going
to
last.
It
is
a
finite
resource
and
no
matter
how
many
places
we
find
to
extract
it,
it's
going
to
get
more
expensive.
I
It's
going
to
be
harder
to
extract,
and
if
you
look
at
the
tar
sands
in
Alberta,
there
is
more
deforestation
in
Canada
than
there
is
in
the
Amazon.
There
are
people
that
are
dying
there.
You
know,
hundreds
of
thousands
of
people
you
know
are
at
risk.
Millions
of
people
are
at
risk
in
these
communities
and
they
say
well,
you
know,
we'll
put
it
you
know
by
rail
or
by
bus.
That's
safer,
no
okay!
Then
we're
going
to
put
in
a
pipeline
because
that's
safer.
I
Well,
ultimately,
it
doesn't
matter
how
we're
transporting
this
oil
people
are
dying.
If
there
are
lives
being
lost
because
of
the
things
that
we're
doing,
then
we
need
to
do
something
else.
Landry
is
excited
to
begin
in
a
year
if
governor
Dayton
vetoes
this
bill
right,
Umbridge
says
that
they'll
have
a
full
year.
They'll
have
a
year
to
make
Minnesota
a
pass
through
state
for
oil
that
we
don't
even
benefit
from
that
will
go
through
two-thirds
of
our
most
shallowest
aquifers
that
will
damage
a
damage.
I
Some
of
the
most
serene
and
perfect
soil
systems
that
have
ever
existed,
and
you
know
it'll
make
it
so
that
Minnesota
won't
be
the
land
of
10,000
lakes
right
it'll,
be
the
land
of
lakes
and
some
oil
Ambridge
in
our
back
pocket.
I
just
will
go
on
forever
and
ever
but
I
think.
If
you
have
any
questions,
please
go
to
stop
line,
3,
org
and
feel
free
to
ask
me
at
the
panel
or
afterwards.
Thank
you.
D
D
D
We
were
bringing
youth
up
to
help
the
youth
of
Standing
Rock
and
give
them
a
break
in
the
kitchens
and
get
a
hundred
forty
five
people
there
and,
as
we
were
getting
closer
to
Standing
Rock,
an
eagle
flew
right
at
her
bus
and
went
up
and
over
in
the
whole
bus
went,
oh
all
at
once.
So
that
was
my
relatives.
Our
relatives
saying
hello
and
we're
doing
a
good
thing.
It
was
one
of
the
most
amazing
trips
I've
ever
been
on.
D
Kathy
Hollander
is
a
full
time
volunteer
for
MN
350,
since
2013
MN
350
is
a
grassroots
group.
Raising
awareness
of
climate
change
in
Minnesota.
Her
specialty
is
extreme
oil
extraction
transportation
across
Minnesota,
especially
tar
sands
oil
from
Canada
she's,
also
a
volunteer
citizen
activist
at
the
state
legislature.
Our
corporate
work
was
as
a
computer
system
analyst
software
and
support
manager
with
a
spear,
univac
and
cray.
She
also
remodels
and
repairs
several
homes.
All
right,
Kathy
come
on
up
here.
Please
and
Ron.
Welcome.
J
Aaron
you're
a
really
hard
act
to
follow.
That
was
amazing.
Can
I
seed
my
time
to
you,
so
you
can
spend
more
15
minutes.
I
was
asked
to
speak
about
civic
engagement
and
after
what
aaron
spoke,
I
feel
like
what
we're
doing
is
tame
by
comparison.
We're
trying
we're
trying
aaron
to
do
everything
we
can
at
Minnesota
350.
We
have
multiple
teams
and
one
is
pipeline
resistance.
One
is
corporate
accountability.
We
also
have
policy
action.
We
work
at
this
legislature.
J
J
What
do
we
do
at
MN,
350
and
by
the
way
we
are
a
state
chapter
of
a
worldwide
organization
and
350
stands
for
350
parts
per
million
carbon
dioxide
in
the
atmosphere.
We
are
a
state
chapter,
Minnesota
chapter
this
international
organization.
We
are
one
of
the
most
active.
We
hold
a
lot
of
rallies.
We
bring
out
hundreds
of
people
and
Standing
Rock
was
such
an
amazing
event,
and
so
many
people
went
that
we
could
call
a
rally
in
two
or
three
days
notice
and
we'd,
see
500
people
showing
up
there.
J
Is
that
much
awareness
of
what
standing
rock
brought
to
the
world
how
it
identified
that
our
world
is
at
a
perilous
resource,
we're
at
a
moment
in
time
where
things
are
changing
rapidly
and
water
is
at
risk
and
we
need
water
to
live.
Oil
and
water
are
at
risk
as
well
as
indigenous
rights.
We
hold
many
many
rallies.
As
you
can
see.
We
had
5,000
people
in
st.
Paul
two
years
ago,
marching
through
downtown
st.
Paul,
we've
been
to
New
York
City
with
people's
climate
March.
J
We
have
another
people's
climate
March
coming
up
this
Jen
this
the
April
29th,
it
is
say,
materia,
2017,
we're
running
eight
buses
out
to
Washington
DC.
Do
that
climate
March
there's
also
a
local
event,
but
if
you
can
go,
please
get
on
one
of
our
buses
and
get
out
to
DC
and
make
your
voice
heard.
We've
held
candlelight
vigils
as
well.
As
you
know,
activities
during
the
day
we've
worked
against
Keystone
XL
we've
done
everything
we
can.
We
have
an
awesome
artwork
team
we've
marched
in
the
May
Day
parade.
For
example.
J
We
hold
many
educational
events
trying
to
bring
every
day
Minnesotans
to
this
event,
due
to
this
action
to
realize
the
urgency
of
climate
change
and
the
fact
that
if
we
continue
to
rely
upon
fossil
fuels
as
Aaron
so
eloquently
pointed
out,
we
are
in
a
heap
of
trouble,
also
did
Ellen.
The
time
is
to
start
to
think
about
moving
off
of
fossil
fuels.
We
run
bus
trips,
not
because
we
enjoy
spending
fossil
for
those
doing
so,
but
because
we
need
to
bring
people
to
where
it
can
be
noticed
where
it
makes
a
difference.
J
We
show
up
at
hearings
in
massive
numbers
were
out
in
New
York
or
in
DC,
trying
to
tell
our
current
president
that
climate
change
is
important
people
care
about
it
and
we
show
up
in
huge
numbers
to
say
so
with
our
bodies.
This
is
an
example
of
a
rally
in
Nebraska,
the
only
the
only
public
hearing
and
the
Keystone
XL
at
that
time,
and
we
were
there.
This
is
a
rally
at
Kalamazoo,
Michigan
and
I.
Think
L
showed
a
slide
of
a
bird
first
pipeline.
We
were
there,
we
experienced
it
firsthand.
J
We
could
see
that
River
we
put
our
hands
into
it.
We
had
a
water
ceremony,
we
also
this
corporate
accountability
team.
Where
were
identifying
banks
that
continue
to
invest
in
the
fossil
fuel
industries,
while
they
have
corporate
accountability
statements
that
say
they
care
about
the
earth
and
they
care
about
the
environment
and
we're
saying
those
two
things
are
no
longer
competitive.
It's
time
to
get
off
of
fossil
fuels
as
quickly
as
we
can.
We
work
on
and
I
vet
asking
people
to
divest
your
personal
portfolios
from
fossil
fuels
and
invest
in
renewable
energy.
J
It's
now
time.
We
do
so
many
things
to
raise
awareness
and
to
get
people
involved,
I
couldn't
even
think
of
the
ball.
We
do
letters
to
the
editor.
We
do
a
lot
of
tabling
at
events.
We
do
phone
calls.
We
do
one-on-ones
with
the
massive
numbers
of
people
that
are
joining
our
movement
after
the
election.
We
had
1500
people
loaded
into
our
database
in
one
fell
swoop.
You
know
the
next
time
we
updated
our
database.
J
We
have
so
many
people
joining
us
right
now,
it's
hard
to
get
to
in
order
to
get
to
know
them
all
we're
doing,
door-knocking
and
canvassing
in
outer
suburbs,
having
one-on-one
conversations
with
people
who
maybe
haven't
talked
about
climate
change,
who
maybe
aren't
thinking
about
it,
to
try
to
raise
awareness
of
it
and
to
say
we
need
to
work
on
this
people.
We
need
to
raise
awareness,
we
do
a
lot
of
public
speaking.
J
We
also
participate
in
regulatory
hearings
again
this
public
utilities
process
Erin
mentioned.
It
briefly,
is
what
we
currently
have
in
the
state
of
Minnesota.
It's
not
a
great
process,
but
it's
all.
We
have
and
it's
a
public
forum
where
people
can
speak
out
about
whether
or
not
they
want
large
energy
facilities
to
be
implemented
or
not.
We
look
at
they
look
at
such
things
as
need.
Is
there
a
need
for
additional
large
energy
facilities?
And
if
so,
what
would
that
facility?
Look
like
we've
turned
out
people
by
the
hundreds
again
at
some
of
these
hearings.
J
We
do
political
advocacy
where
at
the
Capitol
I
was
there
the
data
Aaron.
Was
there
we're
teaching
people
who
have
never
called
upon
their
representative
or
their
senator
before
to
actually
go
to
the
Capitol
meet
your
representative
meet
your
senator
I
still
see
people
who
are
afraid
to
go
to
the
Capitol
have
never
contacted
their
person.
You
know
in
director
one-to-one
relationship
and
we're
breaking
that
we're
taking
youth
we're
taking
older
people
for
the
first
time,
people
my
age,
everyone
to
go,
go
to
the
Capitol.
J
Tell
your
representative
stand
up
for
what
you
believe,
and
the
time
is
now.
We
have
five
weeks
less
than
our
legislative
session.
Aaron
mentioned.
There's
some
dangerous
legislation,
clean
water
is
under
attack,
transportation
is
not
being
funded;
properly.
Pipelines
are
going
to
be
implemented,
supposedly
without
any
regulatory
oversight.
There
are
many
things
happening.
Education
is
another
one,
there's
terrible
things
going
on
too
legislature.
Right
now
we
have
five
weeks
left.
Call
your
Senate
or
call
your
representative
tell
them
what
you
care
about.
J
She
mentioned
briefly
the
problematic
legislation.
The
first
is
removing
pipelines
from
the
certificate
of
need
process,
and
that
is
a
process
where
the
company
has
to
establish.
Is
there
a
need
for
this
additional
large
energy
facility,
in
this
case
we're
talking
about
a
pipeline?
It
is
a
pipeline
that
would
hold
more
oil
than
Keystone
XL.
It
is
a
pipeline
that
would
bring
the
dangerous
kind
of
oil
that
is
really
problematic
for
water
when
it
spills
from
the
tar
sands
of
Canada.
People
have
talked
about
that.
J
J
They
can't
push
it
through
the
pipelines,
so
they
have
to
mix
it
with
much
much
thinner
stuff
like
paint
thinner
and
dilute
it,
a
lot
to
get
it
to
go
through
the
pipelines
that
kind
of
stuff
when
it
spills
like
I,
did
at
Kalamazoo
Michigan
the
light
oil
dissipates
goes
up
into
the
air
causes,
breathing
problems
and
the
heavy
stuff
goes
down
into
the
muck
and
the
bottom
of
the
rivers
of
their
wetlands.
It
mixes
with
the
sediment,
and
it
is
literally
impossible
to
get
out.
Imagine
that
kind
of
oil
being
spilled
on
Lake
Superior.
J
There
have
been
proposals
and
we're
worried
about
new
proposals,
but
imagine
that
kind
of
a
thick
oil
going
to
the
bottom
of
that
you
know
the
best
freshwater
lake
we
have
coldest
lake
with
a
very
poor
refresh
rate
at
Lake
Superior.
There
is
no
one
who
has
ever
been
able
to
recover
oil
at
those
depths,
and
especially
not
this
thick
oil,
the
second
part
of
problematic
legislation.
She
also
mentioned
removing
the
possibility
of
certain
kind
of
alternatives
from
the
process
and
the
EIS
in
the
case
of
the
pipelines
going
across
Minnesota
citizens.
J
Even
like
friends
of
headwaters
and
other
citizens
have
proposed
alternate
type
line
roads
at
times
to
say:
if
we
had
to
have
pipelines
new
ones
go
across
Minnesota
shouldn't
Minnesota
have
the
right
to
choose
the
path
that
they
cross
our
country
our
state.
Would
we
want
to
go
through
our
best
wild
rice
lakes,
where
we
want
to
go
through
our
most
pristine
lakes
that
we
have
left
where
we
want
to
go
through
the
most
permeable
soil
in
Minnesota?
Or
could
we
even
think
about
the
possibility
of
going
through
a
different
path?
J
We
know
in
the
case
of
a
previous
pipeline,
which
was
called
Sandpiper,
which
citizens
effectively
kicked
out
of
the
state
of
Minnesota.
Unfortunately,
the
company
marathon
oil
then
went
to
the
daffle
pipeline
and
decided
to
ship
their
oilmen
devil,
but
all
along
that
marathon
insisted
that
their
oil
had
to
go
and
go
to
superior
Wisconsin
across
the
existing
Enbridge
corridor
and
then
on
down
through
Wisconsin
to
the
Chicago
area.
Citizens
ask
the
question:
why
couldn't
it
just
go
straight
from
the
tar
sands
or
Bakken,
wherever
it
was
going
directly
to
Chicago?
J
So
we're
saying
what
about
looking
at
alternative
routes
and
that's
the
second
thing
right
now
up
at
Garofalo,
authored
legislation,
saying
that
no
citizen
proposed
alternative
routes
that
would
have
a
different
entry
and
exit
point
for
Minnesota
would
be
allowed
to
be
even
included
in
an
environmental
impact
statement
and
if
they
were
included,
that
would
point
out
the
fallacy
of
choosing.
You
know
your
best
corridor.
All
you
would
not
want
to
do
that.
The
third
piece.
J
Your
representative
call
your
senator
I
do
have
some
information
in
the
back
about
those
three
provisions
like
this
and
a
handout.
If
you
want
to
take
it,
we
also
are
doing
direct
action.
I
think
we're
being
inspired
by
err,
just
people
that
are
partners
that
we
work
with
as
well.
But
this
is
a
case
where
I
think
it
was
something
like
30
of
us
sat
down.
Heaven
forbid.
J
We
sat
down
an
entrance
to
the
refinery
and
you
can
see
the
Darth
Vader
type
features
behind
us
and
we
were
arrested
for
merely
sitting
down
an
entry
of
that
refinery.
We
shut
it
down
for
a
day
that
was
BP
whiting
refinery.
They
converted
from
like
North
Dakota
sweet
crude
some
time
ago
to
this
horrible
tar
sands
oil
from
Canada,
and
they
brag
to
their
stare,
hold
shareholders
about
how
much
cheaper
they
would
be
able.
How
much
money
they
would
make
is
that
oil
was
cheaper
to
use
we're
saying
that
was
unethical.
J
You
know
it's
not
something
that
our
country
or
a
world
needed
and
I
think
it
was
about.
35
of
us
decided
no.
We
took
an
arrest
on
it,
ordinary
middle-class
folks
doing
that
there
we
have
a
brave
woman
in
the
crowd,
Annette
claps
teen,
who
has
also
taken
a
direct
action
up
in
Clearbrook,
Minnesota
and
she's
facing
jail
time
at
the
potential
possibility.
J
If
people
are
interested
in
attending
a
trial
where
she
will
try
a
necessity,
defense
saying
climate
change
is
so
necessary,
we
must
address
it
that
ordinary
middle-class
folks
are
risking
arrest
to
do
to
say
that
publicly
out
loud,
because
somebody's
got
to
be
doing
it.
There
is
a
kid's
climate
March
coming
up.
If
you're
looking
for
activities
to
do
things,
to
do,
I've
got
a
half
pager
in
the
back.
Also
talking
about
the
various
climate
marches.
I,
don't
think
I
got
it
in
front
of
me
right
now.
This
particular
Saturday
there's
a
kid's
climate
March.
J
J
We
need
more
marshals
for
the
kids
climate.
March
I'll
be
one
of
the
people
recruiting
marshals.
If
you
could
be
a
marshal
at
this
quids
climate
March
on
Saturday,
we
need
you
to
protect
the
children
as
they
walk
onto
Kellogg
Boulevard
away
from
the
Science
Museum.
The
people's
climate
March
is
coming
up
in
washing,
and
that
is
a
week
from
Saturday
that
would
be
April
29th
again.
Minnesota
350
is
running
buses
out
there.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
J
D
And
now
we're
going
to
have
a
few
questions
to
our
panel.
One
thing
I
want
to
say
about
em
and
350
is
I'm
a
board
member
of
proud
former
board
member
right
now
and
when
Standing
Rock
first
happened
a
Archibald
reached
out
and
asked
everyone
to
come
down
and
and
get
involved,
and
what
happened
was
a
bunch
of
people
that
I
knew
natives
for
downtown
st.
Paul
protesting.
D
There
was
about
twenty
or
thirty
of
us,
then,
all
of
a
sudden
this
group
I
saw
on
Facebook,
said:
hey,
you
know
we're
going
to
do
the
same
thing.
We're
going
to
go
to
Army
Corps
of
Engineers
are
going
to
march
there,
and
then
we
go
there
and
I'm
going
ok,
I'm
down
I'll
go,
you
know,
I've
been
singing
and
pounding
the
drum
you
know
and
literally
I
went
there
and
there
was
almost
2,000
people
there,
and
that
was
the
power
of
MN
350.
D
So
if
you
want
to
get
involved,
that's
a
way
to
get
involved
immediately
because
things
are
happening
all
the
time.
Thank
you
for
bringing
your
truth
and
I.
Have
a
couple
questions
here,
I'm
going
to
ask
Alan
here:
can
we
get
a
copy
of
your
presentation?
Where
is
it
or
will
you
post
it
online
somewhere
I'd.
G
Be
happy
to
share
that
presentation.
There's
a
sign-up
sheet
out
there
and
you
can
just
give
me
your
email
and
I'll
email
it
to
you
it's
on,
just
as
you
go
out
the
door.
The
first
display
on
the
right
is
citizens.
Climate
Lobby
right
at
the
end
of
the
table,
is
my
handout.
If
you
want
to
grab
one
of
those
and
then
there's
a
sign-up
sheet
there
and
be
happy
to
send,
send
the
presentation.
D
So
I
don't
know.
Think
I
would
like
everybody
to
speak
on
this
question.
One
at
a
time
is
how
do
we
assess
the
accuracy
of
the
quality
of
information
we
hear
and
see
in
the
news
and
media
regarding
our
environmental
and
treaty
rights?
I
would
like
to
start
off
with
that
by
saying
that
the
the
press
is
very
eschewed.
I
was
at
a
protest,
a
March
that
tilden
put
on
that
was
going
across
the
lake
Street
Bridge
and
they
were
going
to
meet
the
Minneapolis
and
st.
D
Paul
kids,
where
children
are
going
to
meet
right
in
the
middle,
and
they
were
saying
that
there
was
hundreds
of
people
there
and
then
they
videotaped
with
a
they
spent
a
lot
of
money
to
have
a
helicopter
and
they
videotaped
path.
The
Minneapolis
side,
and
not
both
the
sides
together
and
I,
was
just
every
time.
D
I
hear
my
lyin
eyes
is
like
there's
thousands
of
people
here,
but
I
hear
even
in
their
beloved
NPR
that
there's
hundreds
so
I
feel
like
we're
very
eschewed
with
our
news
and
the
one
of
the
things
about
Standing
Rock
was
the
live
feeds
on
Facebook.
That
blew
everyone's
mind,
so
anybody
else
have
a
errand.
You
want
to
want
to
talk
about
the
five
minutes.
F
A
I
Pretend
that
I
would
just
say
that
you
know
there
are
native
news
outlets.
A
lot
of
people.
Don't
look
at
those
right
because
they're,
not
corporations
they
are
established,
they
haven't
been
around.
Journalism,
is
kind
of
an
old
boys
club
and
if
you're,
not
a
part
of
the
conversation
to
begin
with
and
you're,
not
going
to
be
a
part
of
the
conversation
in
future
events
or
with
future
events,
we
had
Kfir
and
Bismarck
Tribune.
I
My
two
favorite
publications
in
the
entire
world
in
North
Dakota
they
would
come
out
and
the
sheriff
would
actually
have
them
stand
away
from
the
fray
right.
He
was
keeping
them
safe
and
he
would
have
them
stand
there
and
then
he
would
get
on
his
loudspeaker
and
go
closer
and
he
would
say
please
stop
shooting
your
bows
and
Rosetta's.
I
Please
stop!
Please
stop
throwing
bombs
at
us,
please
that
we
know
doing
all
of
these
things
right
that
we
were
obviously
not
doing,
but
he
had
his
news
so
far
away
that
they
couldn't
see
that
he
was
lying
and
nobody.
Nobody
believed
it
and
I
mean,
especially
in
situations
like
this,
where
marginalized
communities
are
going
to
be
directly
impacted,
they
are
going
to
be
part
of
the
sacrifice.
Zones.
I
You
guys
come
from
the
days
of
opening
up
a
dictionary
and
going
to
the
library
right
checking
things
out
on
your
own.
If
you,
if
you
don't
like
Google,
you
know
then
then,
head
to
the
library
you
have
y'all
is
real
familiar
with
them.
I
like
them
too.
I
prefer
them
to
Google,
and
you
know,
go
go
do
that
research
because
you
know
like
it
was
said
earlier.
G
It
make
a
comment
regarding
finding
scientific
information.
You
can
trust
about
the
environment
or
climate
change.
One
of
the
things
that
I
found
interesting
in
some
of
our
politicians
got
in
the
habit
of
saying
I'm,
not
a
I'm,
not
a
scientist,
so
you
know
I,
don't
know
about
these
things
to
which
I
would
respond.
Yes,
we
know
you're,
not
a
scientist,
that's
why
we
have
as
an
intelligent
government,
NOAA
and
NASA
and
the
EPA
and
the
National
Academy
of
Science.
You
should
be
listening
to
them.
H
Well,
since
I
started,
practicing
live,
been
disappointed
with
legal
reporting
in
general,
I
can't
think
of
a
new
source
that
I
haven't
seen
mr.
port,
something
you
know
and
again
Athena's
NPR,
it's
the
start,
rib.
It's
not
necessarily
the
sources
that
maybe
at
one
point
in
my
life
I
would
have
expected
to
be
miss
reporting
things
to
that
extent.
But
you
know
it's
I
think
you
know
you
can
always
go
and
look
at
court
cases.
I
know
a
lot
of
people.
H
Don't
do
that
if
you
don't
practice
law,
but
a
good
judge
will
try
to
write
an
opinion
so
that
you
can
understand
it,
and
there
have
been
reports
in
the
media
that
have
been
wrong.
That
I
think
anybody
could've
understood
just
by
going
and
looking
at
the
store,
so
I
guess
just
take
everything's
a
little
bit
of
a
grain
of
salt
and
it's
the
power
of
you
know
some
of
the
social
media
that
we
have
now.
H
J
D
A
J
Want
to
mention
line
three
that
we're
talking
about
is
a
pipeline
that
brings
oil
from
Canada,
not
North
Dakota,
so
fracking
is
an
issue,
but
right
now
this
particular
forum
was
on
Ethel
and
line
three
primarily
so
again,
there's
two
different
kinds
of
oil:
the
fracked
oil,
the
light
sweet
crude.
You
can
call
it
and
the
heavy
tar
sands
bitumen
and
we're
talking
about
Canadian
tar
sands
bitumen
tonight
I
just
want
to
clarify.
G
Just
another
brief
comment
about
fracking:
on
the
one
hand,
if
you've
got
well
delivered
natural
gas
and
you're
burning
that
it's
only,
it
only
produces
about
half
of
the
co2
that
burning
coal
produces.
So
one
of
the
cynical
things
about
some
of
the
oil
companies
being
for
a
carbon
fee
and
dividend
is
they
would
love
to
put
coal
out
of
business
so
that
they
can
sell
more
natural
gas?
G
Unfortunately,
when
we
do
fracking
what
they're
discovering
now
that
they're,
really
working
on
a
nationwide
survey
of
gas
leaks,
is
that
so
much
methane
is
leaking
just
like
oil
is
leaking
everywhere
and
methane
is
about
twenty
times
more
powerful,
a
greenhouse
gas
than
co2.
Fortunately,
it
is
shorter,
lived
in
the
environment,
but
it's
it's
devastating.
So
it's
really
not
that
much
better
than
coal
in
the
long
run.
When
all
when
you
consider
everything.
D
A
I
That
one
of
the
one
of
the
things
that
you
can
do
is
ask
them
how
the
winter
was
for
them.
This
year
right
when
I
lived
in
Minnesota
like
I,
had
the
Halloween,
where
I
got
stuck
at
the
Mall
of
America
overnight,
because
of
the
blizzard
that
we
had
right,
that
was
in
October
and
in
Minnesota
I'm
sure
you
all
remember
that
you.
I
You
yeah
and
you
look
you
look
at
you
know
our
winters
now
right.
This
is
what
we
would
call
a
mild
winter,
and
why
is
it
that
we
are
not
having
any
random
snow?
You
know
blizzards
in
the
middle
of
April,
and
why
is
it
that
we
are
in
a
drought?
And
why
is
it
that
we
are?
You
know
dealing
with
eco
devastation
in
the
state
of
Minnesota
when
we
used
to
have
an
abundance
of
water,
and
why
is
it
that
we
are
you
know
seeing
temperatures
rising?
You
know
why
I
mean
I.
G
Would
just
say
that
it's
very
challenging,
because
an
interesting
book
is
called
the
righteous
mind
why
good
people
disagree
on
politics
and
religion
and
some
of
what
it
says
is
that
some
of
the
people
who
have
a
hard
core
pick
any
beliefs-
it's
not
because
they
have
studied
it
or
even
maybe
know
anything
about
it.
It's
because
that's
what
their
tribe
believes
and
they're
not
going
to
risk
being
thrown
out
of
their
tribe.
G
So
it's
very
challenging
with
some
folks,
but
I
would
say
that
probably
the
middle
80%
of
America
is
our
target
for
education,
because
I've
done
quite
a
bit
of
public
speaking
now
and
I
have
in
maybe
sixty
presentations.
I've
only
had
two
people
have
kind
of
an
angry,
confrontational
question
and
in
all
other
cases,
people
are
really
very
interested.
Ask
good
questions
sign
up
to
get
literature
after
the
fact
I
I
think
the
biggest
tragedy
right
now.
G
One
of
the
biggest
tragedies
in
the
country
is
that
our
main
media
is
simply
not
covering
what
is
one
of
our
largest
existential
threats
ever
for
our
future,
and
the
media
is
not
covering
it.
So
I
would
encourage
you
to
especially
get
involved
with
3:50
get
involved
with
citizens,
climate
Lobby.
We
need
to
make
noise,
write,
letter,
write
letters
and
let
let
our
voices
be
heard,
there's
only
one
thing
more
powerful
than
money
to
a
candidate
and
that's
51%
of
his
constituents.
That's.
G
D
It
does
work,
I
know
what
we
were
talking
about,
calling
and
leaving
a
message
and
talking
to
them,
because
my
wife
also
works
with
animal
issues
which
are
sacred
animals
and,
what's
going
on
now
with
with
45s
attack
on
our
animals
of
calling
talking
to
someone
and
it
blows
their
mind,
look
what
happened
with
health
care.
A
lot
of
the
people
that
voted
for
45
ended
up.
They
were
going
to
lose
their
health
care,
so
they
were
calling
and
there's
no
new
health
care.
There's
no
45
care
now
so
calling
works.
D
G
Well,
I'll,
try
there's,
there's
a
number
of
sources
of
methane,
probably
the
largest
one
is
leaking
methane.
From
now
the
thawing
permafrost
up
north
and
from
linking
pipelines,
that's
probably
the
biggest
source,
but
there
is
actually
also
a
livestock
source
of
methane.
That's
that's
not
insignificant,
and
you
know,
one
of
the
things
that
we
might
all
be
challenged
to
do
is
to
eat
less
meat
in
general
and
less
beef
in
particular,
because
beef
just
consumes
huge
amounts
of
oil
in
the
form
of
corn
and
and
fertilizer
and
water.
It's
just
kind
of
an
environmental
disaster.
G
G
One
thing
that
I
did
want
to
put
a
plug
in,
for
is
the
March
for
science,
which
is
this
Saturday.
Here's
a
chance
to
get
out
and
be
part
of
the
throng
to
communicate
with,
in
particular,
our
state
legislators.
But
it's
this
Saturday
to
add
meeting
at
Cathedral,
Hill,
downtown
st.
Paul
at
10:30
a.m.
they'll,
be
a
march
then
to
the
Capitol
and
speakers,
and
for
a
closing
comment
that
picture
of
my
three
little
granddaughters
I.
Hope
that
you
all
envision
your
kids
and
your
grandkids
asking
you
the
same
question.
I
And
you
know
when
we
were
in
Standing
Rock.
She
would
watch
everything
that
was
happening
and,
and
she
would
say
no
I'm,
not
scared
of
you
Plains
and
that
scaredy
drones,
I'm,
not
scared
of
you,
police
officers
and
I
would
be
in
SA.
We
gonna
riot
if
I
certainly
know
her
name,
I'd
say
right.
Where
you
are
you
saying
that
to
them,
they
can't
hear
you
and
she
said
they
can
hear
me
and
I
say.
Well.
I
How
do
you
know
that
she'd
say
technology
right
and
she
knew
that
there
was
technology
that
existed
and
she
knew
that
they
were
people
that
were
using
that
technology?
To
kind
of
you
know
curtail
this
life
that
she
wanted
to
live
right.
Three
years
old,
she's
four
now
and
she
can
say
that
she's,
a
veteran
of
Standing
Rock
right.
She
can
say
that
she
was
there
on
the
frontlines,
not
because
anybody
took
her
there,
but
because
she
was
a
child
that
knew
the
importance
of
water
and
wanted
to
be
there.
I
I
can't
impress
upon
everyone
enough
to
tell
you
all
that
you
know
it's
great
that
you're
sitting
here,
but
it's
even
better.
If
next
time
you
bring
your
children
and
they
bring
their
children
and
even
if
they
don't
fully
comprehend
everything.
That's
being
said
that
they
are
part
of
the
conversation,
because
youth
oftentimes
are
overlooked
and
it's
their
futures
that
are
ultimately
in
jeopardy.
I.
J
Guess
I
would
reiterate,
call
your
legislature
I've
been
there
for
four
years
now
pretty
much
full
time
during
and
I
see
a
difference.
Climate
change
never
used
to
be
allowed
to
be
discussed.
It's
actually
coming
up
in
conversation.
Now
people
are
talking
about
it
and
they're
still
laughing
at
it
on
one
side
of
the
aisle,
but
I,
don't
know
which
side
that
is
I
think
it's
the
side
that
wants
to
support
the
fossil
fuel
industry.
J
The
Koch
brothers
have
an
amazing
amount
of
lobbyists
at
the
Capitol,
as
does
Enbridge,
as
does
all
the
gas
stations
people
can
push
against
that.
You
can
call
tomorrow
is
the
Water
Action
Day
at
the
Capitol.
It
doesn't
matter
if
you've
made
a
reservation
or
not.
If
you
can
go
to
the
Capitol
tomorrow
or
if
you
can't
go
call
your
representative
in
your
senator,
if
you
don't
know
who
they
are,
there's
something
called
district,
finder
or
just
just
type
in
Google.
J
Who
is
my
representative
and
it
will
come
up
in
the
state
of
Minnesota,
but
tomorrow
we're
fighting
for
clean
water
and
we
have
over
850
people
coming.
We
need
all
representatives
to
be
called
tomorrow,
saying
we
care
about
clean
water.
So
please
do
that.
All
in
all
the
things
that
affected,
whether
it's
agriculture,
whether
it's
pipelines,
whether
it's
mining,
whatever
we
care
about
clean
water
and
I,
would
say
if
you
take
an
action,
you're
going
to
feel
better.
J
If
you
stay
at
home-
and
you
worry
about
this
you're
going
to
you
know-
maybe
not
through
some
sleep
you're
going
to
say
what
can
I
do
on
one
person-
I'm
insignificant.
If
you
take
an
action,
you
take
it
with
50
other
people,
I
can
guarantee.
You
will
feel
better,
so
come
to
a
big
action.
Be
there
do
something-
and
you
will
say
we
can
do
this.
We
can
address
this
problem.
We
can
solve
it
so
get
out
there.
Thank.
D
D
D
That's
happened
since
the
60s
and
I'm,
proud
to
know
people
that
are
involved
with
it
and
been
really
proud
of
this
night
red
Braun's,
going
to
end
us
with
a
careful
song
in
one
second
I
just
want
to
make
one
quick
announcement
that
the
movie
first
daughter
of
the
black
snake
during
the
film
festival,
that's
about
standing
rock
and
that's
going
to
be
playing
at
Sandy,
seen
Anthony
Mane
on
the
22nd
and
then
there's
another
one
movie
called
beyond
Standing
Rock
I'm,
not
too
sure
that's
the
29th
at
seen,
Anthony
main
theater.
Also.
D
So
it's
a
good
experience.
I
know,
there's
going
to
be
an
online
movie
coming
on.
That's
basically
free!
You
can
donate
money
to
it
and
from
a
dollar
to
as
much
as
you
can
afford
or
stream
that
movie
and
that's
about
standing
rock
and
and
thank
you
all
the
guests
and
thank
you,
everyone
for
coming
out
here
and
we'll
end
with
the
redbone.
Thank
you.