The Dakota Access Pipeline (or DAPL) was built by Energy Transfer Partners to transport crude oil from the Bakken field in North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline crosses under the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and Lake Oahe, and runs within a half-mile of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, through land taken by Congress from the tribe in 1958. The DAPL also runs through important cultural and burial sites for Standing Rock and other Tribal nations
