Author Archives: Stephen Carr Hampton

About Stephen Carr Hampton

Stephen Carr Hampton is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation, an avid birder since age 7, and a former resource economist for the California Department of Fish & Game, where he worked as a tribal liaison and conducted natural resource damage assessments and oversaw environmental restoration projects after oil spills. He writes most often about Native history and contemporary issues, birds, and climate change.

Secret Recording from Energy Transfer Partners Meeting

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Shaun King has posted a secret recording apparently made in the past few days at a meeting between Energy Transfer Partners and investors or shareholders of some kind. Here are some key points: The speaker is clearly trying to reassure the … Continue reading →

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Gratitude for the Water Protectors

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

It’s astounding that 10,000 people converged on the open plain, with no water, food, sanitation, or housing, and worked together to make it all happen. The first camp was started by Standing Rock youth. Hundreds of other tribes from … Continue reading →

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Dakota Access’s Trail of Broken Laws

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

There are several laws and regulations designed specifically to prevent the kind of conflict the world is witnessing at Standing Rock. Energy Transfer Partners and the US Army Corp willfully ignored these laws and created the current crisis. While thousands … Continue reading →

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Red pilgrimage: right-wing counties send their cops to Standing Rock

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The conflict at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation can be seen thru many lenses: white vs red, colonial vs indigenous, rich vs poor, violence vs non-violence, corporations vs grassroots, old energy vs new energy, male vs female, material vs spiritual. … Continue reading →

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Dakota Pipeline knew about Standing Rock concerns 2 1/2 years ago

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Here is the audio recording of Energy Transfers Partner’s (ETP) meeting with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) on September 30, 2014. [The video has been taken down but I took detailed notes; see below.] The recording is astounding for … Continue reading →

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Standing Rock map tells a story

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I created the above map based on a variety of sources– maps released by the US Army Corp, the Environmental Assessment by Energy Transfer Partners, Google Earth, drone footage by Digital Smoke Signals, and information at Oceti Sakowin Camp and … Continue reading →

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Time for pressure: What you can do for Standing Rock now

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Shit is going down and now is the time for the general public to apply meaningful pressure. WHAT HAPPENED THESE LAST FEW DAYS Sunday night (November 20), local law enforcement deliberately doused unarmed non-violent people with water cannons in 25F … Continue reading →

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The Dakota Access Pipeline doesn’t make economic sense anymore

Posted on November 20, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

With the decline in worldwide oil prices, production in North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields has declined so much that, by the end of this year, the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline will be completely unnecessary from an economic point of view. … Continue reading →

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Letter to Obama: Pardon Leonard Peltier

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

November 18, 2016 The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama, I write to you to request the pardon of Leonard Peltier. Leonard Peltier was a community organizer just like you. In a time of … Continue reading →

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Standing Rock: America’s War Zone

Posted on November 16, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I just returned from a Standing Rock/NoDAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline) Teach-in at UC Davis, where we heard accounts from people just returning from the front lines. The war terminology fits. They described a veritable militarized zone, separating non-violent protesters (called … Continue reading →

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