STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. — Standing Rock Sioux tribal member Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun went door to door on North Dakota’s largest American Indian reservations in 2012 turning out the tribal vote to help put Democrat Heidi Heitkamp in the U.S. Senate. In Sioux County, home to the Standing Rock reservation, Heitkamp took 83 per cent of the vote. The Standing Rock tribe opposed it as a threat to water. On Standing Rock, a 3,600-square-mile reservation that straddles the Dakotas border, there are few industries besides a casino. “The majority of the people here feel the same way I do — she chose oil over Indians,” said Joe Torras, a 57-year-old rancher and horse trainer at Standing Rock.

Source: National Post May 27, 2018 12:22 UTC