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'We belong to the river': Images of the Dakota Pipeline protesters

Echoes of the civil rights movement rang in my head when I heard that a security force guarding the Dakota Access Pipeline had unleashed dogs on protesters at a site considered sacred by North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux reservation.

Since April, tribes and environmental groups from across the nation have gathered to fight the four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline. The pipeline would cross the Missouri River near the reservation. “We belong to the river,” a banner at the camp reads.

A judge ruled on Sept. 9 that the project could proceed. On the same day, three federal agencies temporarily blocked work.

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http://www.startribune.com/we-belong-to-the-river/394689101/#1

 

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