Only by confronting the context of the U.S.’s settler-colonial history can settlers begin to reckon with their personal identity as treaty people. Only by confronting the context of the U.S.’s settler-colonial history can settlers begin to reckon with their personal identity as treaty people. To bring attention to the fight to stop the pipeline, Matteson went 21 days without food; Aubid went 38. In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the favor of treaty rights in two high-profile cases. But as the case makes its way slowly through the federal court system, the fight for treaty rights is playing out on its own timeline in the woods of rural Minnesota.