Standing Rock activists asking white people to stop treating pipeline protest like Burning Man

A reported influx of white protestors at Standing Rock has led to an unusual request from activists at the North Dakota Access Pipeline protest.

According to the Independent, fellow protestors are asking white demonstrators to please stop treating the area like a free-for-all festival, complete with drugs, unsolicited music and photo ops.

"No drugs or alcohol... This is not burning man or a festival," one statement posted on Facebook reads. "... YOU ARE NOT ON VACATION. This is not a camping trip."

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their supporters gather in a circle in the center of camp to hear speakers and singers, at a protest encampment near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their supporters gather in a circle in the center of camp to hear speakers and singers, at a protest encampment near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Photo: ROBYN BECK, AFP/Getty Images Photo: ROBYN BECK, AFP/Getty Images Image 1 of / 12 Caption Close Standing Rock activists asking white people to stop treating pipeline protest like Burning Man 1 / 12 Back to Gallery

"White people are colonizing the camps..." protestor Alicia Smith added on Facebook. "They are coming in, taking food, clothing and occupying space without any desire to participate in camp maintenance and without respect of tribal protocols.

"These people are treating it like it is Burning Man or The Rainbow Gathering and I even witnessed several wandering in and out of camps comparing it to those festivals."

Several of the requests, which are going viral on social media, ask that people stop breaking into song.

"Nobody wants to hear your songs with your guitar or drum around the fire," one tweet reads.

According to other protestors, some of the new additions have also asked to use donation money to buy "fluoride-free" water instead of drinking from taps. Another protestor witnessed "a dozen or so white people" encouraging other demonstrators to block police from crossing a bridge.

"These agitators unnecessarily wanted to put people in danger of being arrested just so their picture might go viral," she wrote on Twitter.

The Dakota Access protests began several months ago after Energy Transfer Partners received federal permits to create a pipeline running from North Dakota to Illinois. The pipeline would move half a million barrels of crude oil each day through some territory that includes the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.

The Standing Rock Sioux are currently filing an appeal that would block the construction of the pipeline, which they say could damage cultural sites and contaminate drinking water used by the tribe and surrounding community.

The US Army Corps of Engineers sent a letter to the Standing Rock Sioux tribal leader last week announcing that all federal lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed due to "safety concerns" beginning on Dec. 5.

There are no plans for "forcible removal," but any protestors found on the land could be arrested for trespassing.

More than 525 people have been arrested at Standing Rock since August.