“We are looking at the potential of an armed raid or a forcible raid after February 22nd [2017], when the Army Corps said that they would declare us trespassers on our own land, the same as the United States Army said they would declare us hostile if we didn't return to the reservations in 1875.” IfsSaidStatesUnitedUnited StatesLandReturnArmyHostileFebruaryReservationsUnited States Army Author:Chase Iron Eyes
“There are probably 400 to 500 people, water protectors, north of the 1889 boundary, that was the result of an illegal annexation of treaty territory by the United States against not just the Standing Rock Nation, but the entire Lakota Nation and members of the Great Sioux Nation, the Oceti Sakowin. And so, other tribal governments are weighing in and supporting a fight on the ground, as they have a right to do.” PeopleStatesGovernmentFightingNationsWaterUnitedResultsUnited StatesRocksMembersStandingBoundariesIllegalTerritoryTreatiesProtectorWeighingLakotaAnnexation Author:Chase Iron Eyes
“There are 400 to 500 people north of the Cannonball River in the contested zone, in the treaty zone, in the place where, according to the United States Army Corps of Engineers, we are not supposed to be. And they are going to stand their ground.” PeopleStatesUnitedUnited StatesRiversArmySupposed To BeZoneEngineersTreatiesUnited States ArmyCannonballs Author:Chase Iron Eyes
