Do you have an opinion on the Sioux protests of the N. Dakota oil pipeline?

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Tuesday's ruling is part of a larger lawsuit filed in July seeking an injunction against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which authorized the pipeline's construction. As we've reported, "the tribe filed a complaint with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing that the Army Corps did not follow proper procedure when it gave Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners the go ahead to build the pipeline."

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In the tribe's emergency motion, the Standing Rock Sioux accused the developer, Energy Transfer subsidiary Dakota Access LLC, of razing areas on private land that the tribe's cultural expert recently discovered were significant. The tribe described the events in court documents:

"In the afternoon of Friday, September 2, 2016, the [Standing Rock Sioux Tribe] further submitted recently discovered evidence of an astonishing archaeological find. This find concerned historically, culturally, and religiously important stone features and grave markings to the successors of the Great Sioux Nation, including graves of chiefs, warriors and Bear Medicine healers. These formations and grave sites are adjacent to and in the pipeline's proposed right-of-way approximately 1 to 2 miles away from the Lake Oahe crossing site. Less than 24 hours after SRST's filing, Dakota Access desecrated and destroyed the sites described in SRST's declaration."

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Tensions over the pipeline have escalated recently. Hundreds of Native Americans from tribes nationwide have camped near the construction site in North Dakota. As we reported, "one demonstration over the weekend turned violent. Some protesters ended up bloodied and the local sheriff said three private security officers had been hurt."

In a video posted to Facebook on Tuesday, Archambault said that "we still have to remain peaceful and respectful. We still have to think about what we're going to leave behind after all of this."

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