Will you call it being suicidal when you feel that you are essentially done with life ? It ' s not due to depression , because you have learned to manage it , but just the sort of ' I ' m done ' feeling ? <| sep |> ok didnt realise <| sep |> Sorry that ' s not the case at all . This really goes beyond just the pipeline itself , but back to treaties that have been broken for a long time . This stems from an ongoing civil suit that the Lakota Sioux have won over the United States . The United States continues to break treaty after treaty with many tribes not just the Lakota . The Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 gave the Lakota certain lands . The US found gold in those lands and then broke the treaty , and parcelled the land . They then used it to mine the gold . The Lakota won the suit that they should be given the value of the land back in 1980 in the Supreme Court , and were awarded $ 1 . 3 Billion which they refused to collect because they still want the land back that was wrongfully taken . This $ 1 . 3 billion was put in a trust which grows bigger every year , yet they refuse to collect it . Many have come out and said oh this runs through private lands and not the Reservation at all . Well that is not the whole truth . If their land from the treaty was honored originally this is all Lakota land . Some have said oh they are just holding out for more money . They have been given $ 1 . 3 billion in a trust that they won ' t collect . The Lakota could end their severe poverty right now , but they will not collect because they do not want to cave in . They simply don ' t want money , but their land back . Also many many people will argue that they are making up claims that the pipeline goes through sacred grounds . The reasons many Sacred Indian lands as well as Burial lands are not disclosed for the sole purpose that they are destroyed and raided for profit , and this has been the case since the United States has been a country , and even before . Also the city of Bismarck said no thank you to the pipeline going through the original route because of the same concerns about water issues . Many of those on the Reservation drink well water . The other pipeline that people will cite runs parallel to this proposed pipieline is a natural gas pipeline that was built in 1982 . It ' s called the Northern Border Pipeline . The Lakota Nation did protest , it was put in two years after the United States tried to pay the Lakota off for the stolen land . The Lakota still want the land back , and have not taken a dime of the $ 1 . 3 billion trust that the Supreme Court had awarded them . It is not a money issue it ' s stop breaking treaties , destroying nature , or Lakota ancestral lands , and we won ' t take a bribe issue . You may also want to look into the Dawes Act , and Curtis Act which voided all other treaties with Native Governments In Oklahoma , and the United States . It also dismantled all Native Governments in Indian Territory . Which lead to Indian Territory becoming a state even after Natives have been forced to move time , and time again . If there is a track record of ulterior motives it would be the United States of America .