Analysis Of Tribes Make Stand Against Pipeline By Jack Healy

The article, ‘I want to win someday’: Tribes make stand against pipeline by Jack Healy is primarily towards the Native American tribes in North Dakota. This articles purpose is to explain the situations between the Native American tribe members and Energy Transfer Partners behind the pipeline in North Dakota. The author, Jack Healy, shows the purpose and serious tone of his article by gathering facts and combining those with tribe members experience to clarify the tension there is between the two. He believes the pipelines shouldn’t be built, so they can conserve the sacred land of the Native Americans. The Native American Tribes that are surrounding the construction for the pipeline are protesting against the project because the tribes feel that the construction will destroy the sacred land. Past problems have happened to members of a tribe, such as member Verna Bailey, “Fifty years ago, hers was one of hundreds of Native American families whose homes and land were inundated by rising waters after the Army Corps of Engineers built the Oahe Dam along the Missouri River” (Healy 2016). This historical

evidence proves the reasons why Native American tribes do not want the pipeline to be constructed in their tribes land. The natives don’t want the pipeline created because of past harmful construction to their land that was supposedly going to tame the rivers flood, instead it flooded homes of Native American families. Healy uses satire strategies such as absurdity and innuendo to explain these reasonings.
The author’s use of absurdity throughout the article emphasizes the fact in hand that Native American tribes are breaking because of the constructive damage that happened and that will continue to happen if the pipeline is created.

An example of this is when Healy gets experience from members of a tribe that has already been broken, “the project was a cultural catastrophe..” (Healy 2016). Obviously, it didn’t ruin the tribes culture completely but it did make great damage to their everyday lives, “It displaced families, uprooted cemeteries and swamped lands where tribes grazed cattle, drove wagons and gathered wild grapes and medicinal tea” (Healy 2016). After all of this happening to their tribe, the author believes they shouldn’t suffer through that again with the pipeline. He wants his point to be noticed and heard by his serious tone throughout the

article.
Healy transitions to a more deeper meaning. Healy’s shows innuendo to encourage the reader to understand a tribe member’s feeling towards the pipeline. An example is he hints the phrase, “History, like a river, runs deep here” so the reader can’t deny the facts, “And residents like Ms. Bailey say the pipeline battle has dredged up old memories and feelings about lost lands and broken treaties with the United States government”. Treaties have been broken and by using the first phrase showing how they have already been attacked once and don’t want to be betrayed again.
All of his strategies made this piece explains further on the purpose of the Native Americans and the Energy Transfer Partners ‘war’. Healy made experiences turn into the reality we live in right now, knowing the fear and culture being ripped apart in just one signed agreement.