I feel that this is blowback from the indian tribe getting shafted once too often.

I think the proper grudge is probably 200 years old.

And it may just be the difference between how the red man does things and how the white man does things. I don't mean to be racist, but there is cultural paths of doing things.

From europe/UK comes our common law. The way to do things is we all meet at a town hall and discuss things that will affect all. If you aren't there, than tough luck. And this results in shenanigans like having the meeting early, or making sure some opponent person doesn't get the invite, etc.

From an American Indian point of view, you make sure everyone is there, especially if they are going to be involved. And either everyone decides to do it, or no one.

If you listen to outside people talk about this, they say that they tried to get the indians involved, but when they arrived for the meeting, the indians said it was already over. They also say there were town hall meetings, but the indians didn't come.

Sounds like the indians tried to play white man games, but didn't understand their approval wasn't even necessary. So they were ignored.

And Standing Rock is what happens when you are ignore and run rough shod over a group of people too often.

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Now, you have a big group of angry people. The way to handle it is to send the police to disperse them? Well, that is what the people who stand and say, we did it all legally. (so what if you were screwed)

If this big group of people are actually angry for a real reason, this pipeline will never function. They don't have enough people to guard it. Therefore, they should find out why they are really upset and work it out.