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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says it surveyed a portion of the Dakota Access Pipeline route this week and discovered multiple graves and other significant historical sites not previously identified.
Court documents filed Friday include statements from Tim Mentz, former tribal historic preservation officer, who surveyed about 2 miles of the pipeline corridor this week after receiving an invitation from the landowner.
Mentz writes in court documents that his survey located at least 27 burials, 16 stone rings, 19 effigies and other features in or adjacent to the pipeline corridor just north of the Standing Rock reservation.
“This concentration of stone features is very unusual and reveals that this was a culturally very important place for the tribe’s ancestors,” wrote Mentz, whose family owns a business that does archaeological and tribal identification survey work.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for issuing a permit for the pipeline to cross the Missouri River less than a mile north of the reservation.
Hundreds of pipeline opponents continue camping near the pipeline construction site in protest of the river crossing. Pipeline construction has been suspended. The $3.8 billion pipeline would transport crude oil from North Dakota to Patoka, Ill.
http://bismarcktribune.com/tribe-submits-evidence-of-cultural-sites-in-dakota-access-path/article_b987cebb-033d-525a-9f36-f18b36f17cd3.html
Court documents filed Friday include statements from Tim Mentz, former tribal historic preservation officer, who surveyed about 2 miles of the pipeline corridor this week after receiving an invitation from the landowner.
Mentz writes in court documents that his survey located at least 27 burials, 16 stone rings, 19 effigies and other features in or adjacent to the pipeline corridor just north of the Standing Rock reservation.
“This concentration of stone features is very unusual and reveals that this was a culturally very important place for the tribe’s ancestors,” wrote Mentz, whose family owns a business that does archaeological and tribal identification survey work.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for issuing a permit for the pipeline to cross the Missouri River less than a mile north of the reservation.
Hundreds of pipeline opponents continue camping near the pipeline construction site in protest of the river crossing. Pipeline construction has been suspended. The $3.8 billion pipeline would transport crude oil from North Dakota to Patoka, Ill.
http://bismarcktribune.com/tribe-submits-evidence-of-cultural-sites-in-dakota-access-path/article_b987cebb-033d-525a-9f36-f18b36f17cd3.html