Cannon Ball

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Cannon Ball
Cannon Ball. North Dakota
Cannon Ball. North Dakota
Location of Cannon Ball in Sioux County, North Dakota
ND Sioux County Cannon Ball.svg
Basic data
State : United States
State : North Dakota
County : Sioux County
Coordinates : 46 ° 15 ′  N , 100 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 46 ° 15 ′  N , 100 ° 38 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 875 (as of 2010)
Population density : 3.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 251 km 2  (approx. 97 mi 2 ) of
which 229 km 2  (approx. 88 mi 2 ) is land
FIPS : 38-12020
GNIS ID : 2393365

Cannon Ball is an American settlement in Sioux County , North Dakota . Cannon Ball is not a community in the sense of American law, but a census-designated place a 'settlement area defined for statistical purposes'. Cannon Ball provides a representative to the Tribal Council of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the government of Standing Rock. In the last election, Cody Two Bears was elected to represent the district. One of the tribe's two game casinos is located in Cannon Ball, the Prairie Knights Casino & Resort . The casino is the county's largest employer.

According to a 2010 census, the population was 875. Cannon Ball is part of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and is almost exclusively inhabited by Sioux Indians of the Dakota and Lakota tribe. Cannon Ball became known worldwide through the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline . The route of the pipeline is just a few miles north of the Morton County settlement . In 2016, several protest camps were set up on the settlement area. In February 2017, the protest camps were disbanded under pressure from the Cannon Ball district administration. One of the reasons was the casino game, as the protests blocked a bridge over the Cannon Ball River, and visitors from Bismarck (capital of North Dakota) had to take long detours, and this led to a decline in attendance.

The "Sacred Stone Camp" on August 25, 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ standingrock.org Cannonball District Rep, Cody Two Bears
  2. ↑ standingrock.org ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has two casinos located near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, and the Grand River Casino near Wakpala, South Dakota.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / standingrock.org
  3. ↑ cnn.com Not all the Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the pipeline
  4. ↑ www.reuters.com Clean-up begins at Dakota pipeline protest camp
  5. ↑ www.dailykos.com Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council Urges Shutdown of All Protest Camps Near the Cannonball District
  6. ^ Bismarcktribune.com Tribal council supports asking protesters to leave Cannon Ball

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