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2017-02-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

Pope on Dakota pipeline: Indigenous people have land rights

[Wash Times] VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis insisted Wednesday that indigenous groups must give prior consent to any economic activity affecting their ancestral lands, a view that conflicts with the Trump administration, which is pushing to build a $3.8 billion oil pipeline over opposition from American Indians.

Francis met with representatives of indigenous peoples attending a U.N. agricultural meeting and said the key issue facing them is how to reconcile the right to economic development with protecting their cultures and territories.

"In this regard, the right to prior and informed consent should always prevail," he said. "Only then is it possible to guarantee peaceful cooperation between governing authorities and indigenous peoples, overcoming confrontation and conflict."

The Cheyenne River and the Standing Rock Sioux tribes have sued to stop construction on the final stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline, which would bring oil from North Dakota’s rich Bakken fields across four states to a shipping point in Illinois.

The tribes say the pipeline threatens their drinking water, cultural sites and ability to practice their religion, which depends on pure water. The last piece of the pipeline is to pass under a reservoir on the Missouri River, which marks the eastern border of both tribes’ reservations.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-17 02:22|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 I wonder if any native inhabitants of what is now Buenos Aires are still around to give their opinion?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-17 03:20|| 2017-02-17 03:20|| Front Page Top

#2 So eminent domain only applies to the white folks?

Posted by Bobby 2017-02-17 07:51|| 2017-02-17 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 - if you really want to study Euro genocide against indigenous people, Argentina is a good start.

The Left lives in a swamp of Freudian Projection.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-17 08:20|| 2017-02-17 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Da Pope needs to stick to what he knows best and stay on his reservation.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-02-17 08:28|| 2017-02-17 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 In this regard, the right to prior and informed consent should always prevail.

10-4 there Papa Bear. But they had over 60 meetings and none of the tribes could be bothered to show up. And as far as that "ancestral lands" claim goes, they're going under a resivoir that didn't exist until the 1960's.

Posted by DepotGuy 2017-02-17 08:59|| 2017-02-17 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 HotAir: Vatican: No, the Pope did not announce opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline

"A Vatican spokesperson said after the session, however, that it’s wrong to infer a reference to any specific situation in the pope’s words.

“Pope Francis made no explicit reference to any concrete case,” Paloma Garcia Ovejero, the Vatican’s deputy spokesperson, told Crux.

“Evidently, he’s informed of the numerous problems that affect indigenous peoples, but there’s no element in his words that would give us a clue to know if he was talking about any specific cases,” Garcia Ovejero said."

Posted by Frank G 2017-02-17 09:26|| 2017-02-17 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 The Vatican's 1454 Doctrine of Discovery should be rescinded, then. The Reservation system is a direct byproduct of the Supreme Courts consideration of this papal Bull, in conflict with US Constitutional Law.

Posted by Whavish Thusoling5684 2017-02-17 11:23|| 2017-02-17 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, well, give the Vatican City back to the Etruscans.

Posted by KBK 2017-02-17 12:31|| 2017-02-17 12:31|| Front Page Top

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