Lakota Country Times: Firsthand Account Of Man Camp In North Dakota From Local Tribal Cop

[Algernon Moncrieff]

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There are identifiable variables that remain constant: These oil workers usually come from desperate conditions. These workers usually have a family they have left elsewhere so they are not looking to start new relations. These workers are paid an excessive amount of money. These workers are well aware their employment is only temporary. These workers know they are living in a remote environment where law enforcement is already stretched beyond its limits and the temptation for criminal behavior is very strong. Unfortunately, most of America still cannot comprehend this information.

“Sexual assaults on the male population has increased by 75% in that area,” she continued. That kind of statistic makes maximum security prisons look like the minor league. “One of the things we ran into while working up there was a 15 year old boy had gone missing. He was found in one of the Man Camps with one of the oil workers. They were passing him around from trailer to trailer.”

He went there looking for a job and was hired by individuals within the Man Camp to do light cleaning in and around their personal areas. The young teenager was forced into sex slavery. It’s the kind of thing you hear about in the ghettos of third world countries; not in the quiet and remote countryside.

The victims aren’t just males but females too. Everyone has heard by now of the missing school teacher that was kidnapped as she was out jogging, repeatedly sexually assaulted, and murdered near one of these Man Camps. The age of the Man Camp victims varies. The assailants are not necessarily looking for male and female adults. They are also going after little girls.

[Zorra]

1. Ick. What a nightmare. Fracking, oil, pollution, perverts and weird strangers, crime, drugs, etc.

Hellholes, literally.

Coincidentally, I'm reading "The Round House", by Louise Erdich of the Ojibwe tribe right now. It's a novel about an Ojibwe woman who was raped by a white man on the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It's a really good story and she's a great writer.

[2naSalit]

7. I have warned some

even on this web site, about the dangers of taking work in that area. Not only are these people coming from desperate situations, also arrive armed to the teeth. This I have heard from some who went and came right back and others who own property there.

There's just no sense of humanity in such places.

And what prompted me to respond to your post is that you mentioned Louise Erdich. I read one of her books a few years ago and still cannot forget the majority of it. She is a very good writer.

"Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse" couldn't put it down, didn't want to get to the end... my definition of a good book and a great author.

I'll have to read the others.

[Lindsay]

2. This is horrifying.

The truths behind the lies of "job creators."

Thank you for posting this.

[SamKnause]

3. K&R

No words.

[burrowowl]

4. K&R!

[freshwest]

5. Excellent and wise woman. Sadly predictable outcome and government will not be allowed to stop this.

When the Man Camps are all closed and the pipelines in place, the workers will bring misery wherever they land next. Not the kind of neighbor one will ever be able to trust or be safe living around. No doubt they'll be well armed, too and able to afford to move into many communities to repeat what they did there. I'm glad the police officer had a chance to speak out in that venue. Did natives vote for this in their area?

[bemildred]

6. It is called a "behavioral sink".

Anything goes, and it does.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. kick for more exposure

Kick for more exposure

[Duppers]

9. omg...

Even a four yr. old girl sexually assaulted!! I'd feel homicidal if I saw this happening before me!