Dakota Access Pipeline Saga Turns Violent Amid "Largest Gathering Of Native Americans

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Dakota Access Pipeline Saga Turns Violent Amid "Largest Gathering Of Native Americans Since The Little Bighorn"

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In what has become the largest gathering of Native Americans in more than 100 years, a coalition of dozens of tribes across the country oppose the pipeline’s construction, citing concerns that it would put the Missouri River – as well as the network of lakes and tributaries that the “Big Muddy” is connected to - at risk of contamination via oil spill and lead to the destruction of culturally significant sites for the Sioux tribes in the area.

Did the Dakota Access Pipeline Company Deliberately Destroy Sacred Sioux Burial Sites?

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Only hours after lawyers representing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed evidence in federal court documenting how some of the Dakota Access pipeline’s proposed route would go through a sacred burial site, the company unexpectedly began working on that very site. As bulldozers cleared earth, hundreds of Native Americans from many different tribes rushed onto the construction site to protect the sacred site. In response, the company’s security forces attacked the Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray.

Worth noting that the burial site was 20 miles from the pipeline's nearest currently active work site. They had to drive the dozers 20 miles through uncleared right-of-way to get to the site. Then dogs and pepper spray - the company could not be much more antagonistic if they tried.

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