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A Pipeline Fight and America’s Dark Past
posted on September 7, 2016At The New Yorker, Bill McKibben writes, “This week, thousands of Native Americans, from more than a hundred tribes, have camped out on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, which straddles the border between the Dakotas, along the Missouri River. … They’re there to protest plans for a proposed oil pipeline that they say would contaminate the reservation’s water; in fact, they’re calling themselves protectors, not protesters.” The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved the pipeline, which the Sioux tribe says will “require digging up sacred spots and old burial grounds.”