‘Stand with Standing Rock’: Demonstrators in the US Rail Against the Dakota Access Pipeline · Global Voices
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For months the indigenous Lakota Sioux have been gathering to block an incursion on their lands by the Dakota Access Pipeline. They call themselves the “Water Protectors”, since construction of the pipeline endangers the drinking water at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.
The Lakota have been joined by more than 200 other First Nations tribes, along with activists from around the world. In September 2016, after the destruction of sites sacred to the Sioux, the Obama administration issued a temporary halt on construction of the pipeline.