A federal judge’s decision Friday dashed the hopes of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the many people assembled to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline project. Then the Obama Administration unexpectedly halted work in order to address :important issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other tribal nations." Administration officials went further to say there needs to be a better process "with respect to considering tribes’ views on these types of infrastructure projects." Did the movement to stop the pipeline bring, not just a victory for Standing Rock, but open to the door to long-awaited reforms for Indian Country policy? Or does this new position only last for the final months of the Obama presidency?