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"provider_name": "Action Network",
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"author_name": "Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund",
"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/native-organizers-alliance",
"title": "Magellan Pipeline Comments",
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"description": "Since time immemorial, Tribes have used the sacred area around and within what’s now known as Pipestone National Monument in present-day Minnesota. The Magellan Corporation is applying for a rerouting permit for a fossil fuel pipeline that would threaten these sacred lands and waters. When you click to submit a public comment, you’ll see that the draft message includes the Yankton Sioux Tribe’s Official Tribal Comments, which lay out how the 1858 treaty between the U.S. government and the Yankton Sioux Tribe reserved for the Tribe rights to “free and unrestricted use of the red pipestone quarry,” which was part of the original homelands of the Yankton Sioux Tribe. All of the pipeline’s proposed route options are within or adjacent to the Tribe’s 1858 Treaty Lands, which “hold countless cultural and natural resources of significance to the Tribe,” and “are home to the flora and fauna that Tribal members continue to use for spiritual, medicinal, cultural, and subsistence purposes to this day.” Now, all members of federally recognized Tribes can quarry the sacred red pipestone in Pipestone National Monument to make ceremonial pipes, and use the land for sacred ceremonies. As the Yankton Sioux Tribe explains in official public comments: this pipeline reroute “is a dangerous and destructive project” that poses a threat to “one of the most sacred resources to… many Tribal Nations across the United States.” The Tribe’s official comments note that pipeline leaks could “bring oil into the pipestone itself, which is a painful threat to Native Spirituality.” The Minnesota Department of Commerce and the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission have released a comparative environmental analysis (CEA) for the proposed Magellan Pipeline, and they’re seeking public comments by Tuesday April 9 at 4:30 pm Central Time. Click “START WRITING” to submit a public comment in solidarity with the many Tribes that oppose the dangerous Magellan Pipeline reroute through sacred Native lands.",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/magellan-pipeline-comments"
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