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Violence Against Native People
The addition of the DAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline) and the actions linked to it undermine the indigenous community and their traditions through sexual violence towards women and non-binary individuals. Spiritual leaders from these indigenous communities were women who referred to the pipeline as "the black snake" and organized protests, such as prayer circles at the construction sites led by the elder women from those tribes, in order to protect the land and their culture. These protests led to many reports of police violence, such as the use of rubber bullets, strip searches, tear gas, and violent arrests against the native women and two spirits. Supporters of the #NoDAPL movement express concern towards the DAPL as an injustice against their community, their people and their land. Many of the supporters identify the DAPL movement as a repetition of the U.S. settler colonialism.

The United Nation define human security as having two major components, freedom from fear and freedom from want. Human security can be threatened by indirect or structural threats. In North Dakota, an example of this kind of structural threat is when the oil fields are opened up hundreds of men moved to these areas and the crime rate went up 7.2%.

In 1978, the Supreme Court case Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe did not allow crimes on tribal territory, by those not affiliated with the tribe, to be prosecuted by tribal authority. However, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 allowed tribal authority to prosecute non-tribal members who commit crimes on tribal land. In 2016, the National Crime Information Center reports there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls although only 116 cases were logged.

Steve Bynum, WBEZ radio host, talked with and about Lissa Yellowbird-Chase and the impact she has had on the murdered, raped and disappearance of the indigenous people. The other main topic she talks about is the “Man Camps” and how they run and what they are like. She also gives examples of raped and murdered victims.