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N.D. militarized police push back Water Protectors with armored vehicles, tear gas and rifles

September 29, 2016
By Navajo
Daily Kos

Regardless of where our Water Protectors travel in North Dakota to conduct a peaceful prayer event against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that threatens the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s drinking water, you would think that they wouldn’t be met with armored vehicles and assault rifles. But they were.

Citing Environmental Risks, Scientists Back Tribes in Dakota Access Fight

Meanwhile, a Reuters investigation finds pipeline spill detection system severely flawed

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Common Dreams
September 30, 2016

Close to 100 scientists have signed onto a letter decrying “inadequate environmental and cultural impact assessments” for the Dakota Access Pipeline (...

The growing indigenous spiritual movement that could save the planet

September 30, 2016
By Jack Jenkins
ThinkProgress

When Pua Case landed in North Dakota to join the ongoing Standing Rock protests in September, she, like thousands of other participants, had come to defend the land.

Standing Firm at Standing Rock: Why the Struggle is Bigger Than One Pipeline

September 29, 2016
By Sarah Anderson
Nation of Change

The first sign that not everything is normal as you drive down Highway 1806 toward the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota is a checkpoint manned by camouflage-clad National Guard troops. The inspection on Sept. 13 was perfunctory; they simply asked if we knew “what was going on down the road” and then waved us...

Military-Style Raid Ends Native Prayer Against Dakota Pipeline

September 29, 2016
Telesur

Up to 21 people were arrested during a peaceful prayer service.

North Dakota police with military-style equipment surrounded Native Americans gathered in prayer against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline on Wednesday, disrupting their plan to cross sacred and treaty-protected land in protest of a project they fear will destroy their...

From prairie to the White House: Inside a Tribe's quest to stop a pipeline

September 27, 2016
By Ernest Scheyder and Valerie Volcovici
Reuters

September 27, 2016

From prairie to the White House: Inside a Tribe’s quest to stop a pipeline

By Ernest Scheyder and Valerie Volcovici
Reuters

Three days after guard dogs attacked Native Americans protesting an oil pipeline project in North Dakota in early September, an...

President Obama should listen to the indigenous people fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline

September 27, 2016
By Celeste Goox yadí Worl
Grist

Something historic is happening right now in North Dakota. At the camp in Standing Rock, more than 4,000 indigenous people from 280 tribes have come together, bringing totem poles, handmade canoes, and other sacred...

UN Experts to United States: Stop DAPL Now

“The tribe was denied access to information and excluded from consultations,” says UN special rapporteur

By Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Common Dreams
September 25, 2016

Backing up the Standing Rock Sioux and its allies, a United Nations expert...

Archeologists denounce Dakota Access pipeline for destroying artifacts

Coalition of 1,200 archeologists, museum directors and historians say $3.8bn Dakota Access pipeline disturbs Native American artifacts in North Dakota

By Oliver Milman
The Guardian
September 22, 2016

Archeologists and museum directors have denounced the “destruction” of Native American artifacts during the construction of a contentious oil pipeline in North...

Tribes Across North America Unite in 'Wall of Opposition' to Alberta Tar Sands

More than 50 tribes signed on to the historic treaty alliance, banding together for the sake of their health and planet

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Common Dreams
September 22, 2016

In a historic show of unity, more than 50 First Nations across North America on Thursday signed a new treaty alliance against the expansion...

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