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On 4^th December 2016, Colonel Henderson has announced that Army Corps of Engineers has refused access required to finalize the Dakota Access Pipeline. The statement announced when Standing Rock co-organizer Michael A. Wood Jr. notified to Veterans about their legal rights. Point to be noted that at least 3 thousand veterans have joined at the Standing Rock camp in order to support the Sioux in building 3.7 billion U.S dollars pipeline. This pipeline will supposedly be crossed by Army Corps of Engineers through disputed land. Wood further indicated this new development as an historical move. It is important that Veterans from all departments of the U.S Armed Forces were reached by cars, planes and special buses on 4^th December 2016 to support the tribe in their long protests to protect their sacred sites and drinking water.

The pipeline will allegedly be cross the land of tribe, but tribe representative said that this project is violating the agreement that allows them the land, so they opposed this alleged project from its beginning. The tribe said in a statement that they will not allow the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to cross Oahe Lake for supposed Dakota Access Pipeline. They should find an alternate route for their project. The DAPL demonstration event was organized by veterans Wood and Wes Clark. This event raised at least 1 million U.S dollar in just 2 weeks in order to protect the Sioux. A Navy veteran & member of the Crow tribe Dean Hill had started his journey with his family from Spokane, Washington.