Sioux Tribe Research Paper
It has been over 400 years since white settlers came to America and claimed land originally belonging to the Native Americans. Indigenous peoples of America, including the Sioux tribe, have suffered continuously because of the settlers and eventually their government. The Sioux tribe is recently taking a stand by protesting the plan for the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota that could seriously jeopardize the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. This pipeline also would cross through sacred ancestral lands of the Sioux tribe. Leaders of the Sioux tribe explain that they did not properly communicate with the people planning for the pipeline. Since spring, protesters have gathered peacefully to show their disagreement with the pipeline plan, but recently blocked the pathway for construction, which led to violence. The Sioux tribe have an inherent sense of duty to perform a
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He follows this up by explaining that “If it is of such nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law.” This also clarifies that when the nature of the law is unjust, then following good conscience resulting in the breaking of the law is actually the duty of the people. According to Thoreau, for a law “to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.” Strangely enough, Thoreau believes that a citizen’s duty is not to force others to eradicate the wrong by breaking the law, but only eradicate the wrong in one’s own life. Thoreau shows how remove injustice from one’s life in an influential line that reads as