Protesters at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation have beaten back the Dakota Access Pipeline, which will no longer be built across the sacred land, the US Army Corps of Engineers announced Sunday.

“Today, the US Army Corps of engineers announced that it will not be granting the easement to cross Lake Oahe for the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline,” Standing Rock tribal chairman Dave Archambault II said.

The administration will not allow the four-state, $3.8 billion pipeline to be built under Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir where construction was on hold, Corps spokeswoman Moria Kelley told reporters.

“Instead, the Corps will be undertaking an environmental impact statement to look at possible alternate routes,” Archambault said. “We wholeheartedly support the decision of the administration and commend with the utmost gratitude the courage it took on the part of President Obama, the Army Corps, the Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior to take steps to correct the course of history and do the right thing.”

“The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will forever be grateful to the Obama administration for this historic decision,” the chairman concluded.

The news came after thousands of veterans poured into the Standing Rock Sioux reservation this past weekend to stand in solidarity alongside the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters.

Some 2,000 veterans packed the Oceti Sakowin Camp, located on Army Corps of Engineers land near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

Demonstrators who’ve been on site for weeks indicated they’re prepared to stay, and federal, state and local law enforcement have indicated they won’t forcibly remove the protesters.

With Post wires