{"id":60522,"date":"2016-10-06T04:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T09:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60522"},"modified":"2016-10-06T04:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T09:59:28","slug":"conundrum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60522","title":{"rendered":"Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Indian tribes claim a pipeline company should not be digging on certain lands because the <a href=\"http:\/\/countercurrentnews.com\/2016\/08\/army-corps-engineers-confirms-no-written-easement-dakota-access-pipeline-construction-corps-property\/\"><span class=\"s2\">written easement has not yet been signed<\/span><\/a> and verbal permission to proceed is insufficient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They also claim the easement should not be given at all because the tribe recently discovered the lands in question are sacred lands.\u00a0 The tribe didn\u2019t realize it earlier because they have no written records; everything is done verbally, that\u2019s their tradition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Heads \u2013 Whites must have everything in writing; tails \u2013 Indians need not have anything in writing. <\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">And is writing a form of cultural appropriation? \u00a0Or does that only work one way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Indian tribes claim a pipeline company should not be digging on certain lands because the written easement has not yet been signed and verbal permission to proceed is insufficient. They also claim the easement should not be given at all because the tribe recently discovered the lands in question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60523,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60522\/revisions\/60523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}