Dakota Pipeline Protests: President Obama Tells Tribes 'You're Making Your Voices Heard'

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and over 300 other Indian Nations who have for weeks protested the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, are "making their voices heard," President Obama said Monday.

The president made the remarks in his address at the White House Tribal Nations Conference, an annual gathering created by the his administration eight years ago to bring together representatives from each of the country's 567 federally recognized Native American tribes to bring issues that affect tribal communities to the attention of the federal government.

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