In September 2026, hundreds of water protectors gathered to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the 2016 #NoDAPL Movement in Standing Rock. The movement was started by Indigenous youth and elders and approximately 10,000 people came together at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, an oil pipeline crossing through unceded treaty territory without the tribe's free, prior, and informed consent. Water protectors faced militarised repression and violence by state and company forces. Authorities forcefully cleared the camp in February 2017 and the pipeline was constructed, but the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe continued to bring legal challenges over the past decade.

The 10-year anniversary gathering centered on collective healing, connection, and celebrating each others' strengths.

Additional information about the human rights abuses related to the Dakota Access Pipeline are available in numerous stories on BHRC's website, including here, here, and in this Stakeholder Report to the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review Working Group submitted in 2019, among others. Prior responses from Energy Transfer can be found here and here.