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N.D. Supreme Court Accepting Comments Until December 30th on Proposed Temporary Rule to Allow Out of State Lawyers Practice

December 20, 2016Kate Fort4 Comments

This temporary rule would allow out of state attorneys to practice in North Dakota so long as the “judicial emergency” (i.e., representing those water protectors who have been arrested) ends.

Notice here. Send comments to supclerkofcourt@ndcourts.gov

Anyone can and should comment. Generally speaking, comments from N.D. barred lawyers in support of this rule would be very helpful. Comments out-of-state lawyers who would practice under this rule would be also helpful. Short comments from non-lawyers in support of the rule would also be good, and especially from those who live in-state.

Proposed rule here.

A lawyer authorized to practice law in another United States jurisdiction, and not disbarred, suspended from practice, or otherwise restricted from practice in any jurisdiction may provide legal services in this jurisdiction on a temporary basis. The legal services must be assigned and supervised through the North Dakota Bar Association, which shall adopt an admission application substantially comporting with that used by the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota.

#NoDAPL Turned on its Head

December 12, 2016Ann Tweedy1 Comment

Here’s a piece by Terry Anderson & Shawn Regan arguing that the reasons that Standing Rock opposes the pipeline have to with the fact that the Tribe couldn’t benefit economically from DAPL due to stifling federal regulation. This is a very troubling argument that I worry is just 50s-era termination in sheep’s clothing.

Army Corps Denies Easement at Standing Rock Pipeline Crossing

December 4, 2016Matthew L.M. Fletcher

NYTs.

Press release from NCAI here.

Army Corps Letter and Press Release, Standing Rock Press Release, Letter to the President from Former Appointees

November 28, 2016Kate Fort

Here are links to the various documents regarding the Oceti Sakowin camp and the Dakota Access Pipeline:
Letter from Army Corps

Statement from Army Corps

Press Release from Standing Rock Tribal Chairman

Letter to the President from Former Political Appointees

DAPL Protest Poetry & Art Sought

November 28, 2016Ann Tweedy

Award-winning Standing Rock Sioux poet Tiffany Midge is soliciting poetry and artwork protesting DAPL for publication in broadsides for Broadside Press.

The full call is below:

http://broadsidedpress.org/responses/2016dapl/
Broadsided Special Features: Responses: Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Protests at Standing Rock, 2016

At Broadsided Press, we believe that art and literature inspire and demonstrate the vitality and depth of our connection with the world. Art operates beyond the news cycle, connects surface information to deeper truths, and honors and what it attends.

We had to speak out—we had to make a space for you to speak out as artists and writers—on the continuing resistance at Standing Rock to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Send us poems, short-shorts, and artwork in response to Standing Rock. Full guidelines for length etc are available on our website.
With the help of guest editor Tiffany Midge, we will bring your work into broadsides for people to consider and share. Each broadside will feature the work of one visual artist and one literary artist, the combinations thereof selected and designed by the editors.

Submissions by those involved with the action (you are free to define what this means) are free.

DEADLINE: January 10, 2017

PUBLICATION: On or around February 1, 2017

Tiffany Midge’s poetry collection The Woman Who Married a Bear (University of New Mexico Press) won the Kenyon Review’s Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry. She is a humor columnist for Indian Country Today and an assistant poetry editor for The Rumpus. Her work is featured in McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Waxwing, Okey-Pankey, and Moss. She is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux (Hunkpapa Lakota). Follow her on Twitter @TiffanyMidge

“How the archaeological review behind the Dakota Access Pipeline went wrong” (The Conversation)

November 25, 2016November 22, 2016Matthew L.M. Fletcher3 Comments

Here, by Chip Colwell.

NYTs: “Environmentalists Target Bankers Behind Pipeline”

November 8, 2016November 8, 2016Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Indian Country Grassroots Statement on Standing Rock

November 7, 2016November 7, 2016Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

STATEMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE STANDING ROCK SIOUX

November 3, 2016

Lands and waters, in our deeply held way of life, are not mere resources nor are they boundaried areas to be owned. They are the foundation of all relationships. Relationships, in a sense deeper than commonly understood, is the foundation of peace, happiness, law and order. Land, waters and human beings are mutual stewards. The tragic consequences of contamination to rivers and oceans has been repeatedly demonstrated by the mining at Black Mesa and Tar Creek, and by the Exxon Valdez and BP oil spills.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is now almost upon the Missouri River despite renewed calls from within the federal government itself for a stop until the environmental impact is formally assessed. Such calls were in existence since spring but were nevertheless ignored by the agencies responsible for such assessments. Instead, the pipeline was “fast tracked.”

The Pipeline directly threatens the Missouri River, which is the source of life for the Standing Rock Sioux. It is understood that the pipeline will carry one million gallons of crude oil an hour, and that any leak that is not quickly stopped will cause irrevocable environmental damage. There are news reports of nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in North Dakota in less than two years in remote areas where leaks are not readily known. Leaks are inevitable. Therefore, indigenous Americans from numerous tribes have gathered in protest to save the source of life; to save the Standing Rock Sioux people.

The gathered protesters are not merely scattered activists; they are representatives of their Indigenous Nations who have all endorsed the request of the People of the Missouri River for stoppage in order to dialog with the Nations. They are also representatives of the American people. They stand together asking that the laws of the United States be followed and honored – the laws establishing a duty to act on behalf of all Americans in managing our natural resources. We must all stand together to protect our limited and irreplaceable waters.

Indian Country Grassroots Support