Fort Peck to Standing Rock
So, I'm prowling around websites looking for reactions to Judge B's Minute Order dismissal.
Standing
Rock's Facebook page is silent on that matter; however, they just got a
couple young buffalo bulls from Ft. Peck (originally from the
Yellowstone herd).
Anyway, there's a couple photos of them being released near Ft. Yates, but this photo made me LOL
So,
these two guys are right outside the corral where the buffalo were
unloaded. Looks like they're starting a sacred fire, in a sacred coffee
can, and probably smudging sage to bless the event. There's another
photo in the series and a drum group is ready to do a welcome song. A
nice event to acknowledge the addition. I can smell that pasture and
the critters. ND at its finest. I always refer to it as cow heaven. I
would have liked to see a couple people horseback of course.
But,
look at that kid's mask,... half mast mask. OMG. In the middle of
nowhere ND with a drum (unseen in this photo), sage burning in a tin can
rigged with a little baling wire handle, a buffalo skull and hand drum
at the lower right corner, an Eddie Bauer briefcase... (;>) He's
wearing shorts and a tee shirt, the elder is in traditional Sioux
Wranglers ---
My sarcastic thought ... "Wonder what color that snake is"
There are times I think I'll be struck dead by lightning.
............
I
can just imagine how gorgeous that lake looks, and the fresh air. Cool
nights...(;>) What great memories that you're creating
.............
Depending
on whether or not I count the introductory and closing clauses, Judge
B's dismissal is about 100 words. Wonder what the various Sioux spent
over 6 years. Can't imagine it'd be less than $1,000,000 a year in
legal fees and expenses. We'll round it down to $5 million, So, about
$50,000 per word. Put that in a tin can and smudge it.
That
sounded mean, and that's not intentional. But, it's just such a
cavalier treatment to have such a brief (pardon the pun) ending. Can
you imagine the volume of paper? I know that most things would be
advanced electronically, but there are paper copies produced for
official record. OMG.
Anyway,
I know the tribes were pinning great hope on Biden - and are looking
for him to count coup on DAPL and Enbridge. They were heartened by the
Keystone permit being pulled, and want him to do a couple encores of
that.
There's nothing that would surprise me from the Biden folks.
So, not only am I wary of winning a battle and losing a war, I really don't want to gloat.
I wonder how S Rock grandmas feel about this. That's a lot of money gone, and there are still homes without plumbing.
As
you know, Dave Archambault and the Council Member from Standing Rock
were kicked to the curb in the election immediately following the
protests (Mess cleaned up in the spring, regular election scheduled the
succeeding fall). It's really going to be interesting to see how their
next elections turn out.
...............
The
Dems will pivot to the next "Kumbayah" cause to keep inciting/exciting
their voter base. I wonder if it's going to be boarding schools?
Nature
abhors a vacuum. There is virtually nothing printed on DAPL after
Boasberg's May ruling. I've combed through the tribal websites, a
couple pubs that carry current topics (Indianz, and Indian Country Today) ... it's just eerily quiet.
Eye of the hurricane, calm before the storm?
................
Thanks
so much for including that Minute Order in your blog. None of the
media were linking the doc, much the less noting how terse the dismissal
was. A little too long for a Burma Shave sign - ha! Well, that gives
me an idea. I've never played with that meter. Here we go......
The DAPL suit
Is at an end
How much did
Your lawyers spend?
Burma Shave
Spent millions on
the DAPL suit
Judge dismissed it
What a hoot
Burma Shave
Jane Fonda's plane
burns gas still
You lost DAPL
Here's the bill
Burma Shave
Oy vey
have a great day
oofta, DAPL
was all the rage
was all the rage
until the lawyers
were put in cage
and all the tribes
thought it sludge
but others thinking
like the judge
but others thinking
like the judge
Some said it was
the big black snake
but we all knew
the news was fake
the big black snake
but we all knew
the news was fake
Misguided youths
see big bad oil
but never thought
see big bad oil
but never thought
Boasberg was their foil
Ninety feet deep
And out of sight
but some like
that CBR blight
And out of sight
but some like
that CBR blight
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