Children Targeted for Similar Threatening Attacks at Anti-Bakken Dakota Access Pipeline Actions in Iowa & Camp in North Dakota

CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA and LOHRVILLE, IOWA – Children participating in anti-Bakken Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) actions in Iowa and North Dakota were targets of similar disturbing attacks this week when men asked the price to buy the children.

Water Protectors, the name of a loose collection of groups lead by Native Americans and their allies, is attempting to halt construction of the Bakken DAPL which will run from North Dakota to Illinois. It has fronts in North Dakota and Iowa.

Water Protectors in Iowa were heading to an action site outside Lohrville on October 15. Water Protector Marissa Cummings was walking with her young daughter. The workers fled when they saw the Protectors coming. Cummings and her daughter encountered a fleeing Bakken DAPL worker in a truck. As he fled the area, he shouted out the window at Marissa Cummings, “How much for the little girl?”

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