Recent events at the Standing Rock protest in North Dakota suggest that a deal is being brokered there by native "leaders" to allow the pipeline to continue in exchange for benefits to tribal council officials. The recent arrival at Standing Rock of convicted war criminal and corporate front man "Chief" Ed John from Canada hearkens back to previous such deals that Ed John made for corporations in British Columbia, at the expense of his own people. The same Ed John plays a central role in the cult-related trafficking of aboriginal children off Indian reservations today.