Standing rock says no to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

AuthorCassidy, Emma
PositionON THE LINE

In North Dakota, thousands of people from native nations around North America have gathered near Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. If built, the pipeline would carry oil under the Missouri River upstream from the reservation. The Camp of the Sacred Stones at Standing Rock was established to resist the pipeline in April and continues to grow larger each week. The camp is located at the edge of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.

On September 4, hundreds of people marched to protect the water and sacred sites near Standing Rock, ending with prayers and ceremonies for the damaged sacred land. Working on a Saturday, the pipeline company bulldozed the area and damaged sacred sites along a 150-foot corridor running more than a mile. This happened the day after the Standing Rock Sioux notified officials in Washington, D.C., of the existence and importance of those sites.

Members of native nations from the Pacific Northwest traveled to North Dakota to show solidarity in the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline construction. They paddled, prayed, and sang on the Cannonball River while indigenous people and allies cheered...

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