I think the fundamental issue is that nobody else wanted the pipeline on their land, so it got shoved onto the nominally sovereign Indian tribes where the white man's bullshit always gets pushed. (And I say that as a white man.)
Robert Moses had shifted the parkway south of Otto Kahn's estate, south of Winthrop's and Mills's estates, south of Stimson's and De Forest's. For men of wealth and influence, he had moved it more than three miles south of its original location. But James Roth possessed neither money nor influence. And for James Roth, Robert Moses would not move the parkway south even one tenth of a mile farther. For James Roth, Robert Moses would not move the parkway one foot.