TransCanada representatives showed up at the tribal office in Eagle Butte to talk up the Keystone XL pipeline, which will cross the Cheyenne River just outside the southwest corner of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. They had a closed-door meeting with tribal chairman Kevin Keckler. After that meeting, Cheyenne River Sioux Councilwoman Robin LeBeau caught TransCanada's hired men and offered the response we all ought to give to TransCanada: take a hike.
Councilwoman LeBeau understands that TransCanada is just another bunch of wasicus looking to rape and steal and take her people's land. And in TransCanada's eyes, we are all Indians.
Here's the second part of LeBeau's conversation with TransCanada's men, in which she gets to know these fellas, who say they are from Sioux City and Oklahoma. The reps note that the tribal chairman says he opposes the pipeline but welcomes TransCanada to send folks to talk:
I would suggest that you ask to see their SD realtors license which they are required to have to do any easements or land acquisitions. I would guess these two have only been recently employed to achieve one objective.....
Awesome! It's now on my YouTube page, Facebook, and Twitter. Thanks, Cory!
Using racial slurs is really going to get their point across. I'd love to see the look on their faces when Obama lets the pipeline go through.
The KXL pipeline will never be built under a Democratic administration.
Bravo Councilwoman LeBeau!
Robin is one courageous woman. She stands up to power on a regular basis, often risking arrest in her nonviolent resistance, because she's defending, among other things, the future of her 10-year-old son. Guess what? I tell myself that I don't dare risk arrest in my nonviolent resistance--for the sake of my 10-year-old son. Sorta makes clear who's got the privilege and who doesn't, doesn't it?! Makes me ponder, try to figure out just how better to use the privilege I've got so that she and so many others don't have to suffer. Including our kids.