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Vol. 80/No. 46 December 12, 2016
Minn. rally backs Standing Rock Sioux fight
Jeff Schad Imagery
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Hundreds rallied at the Army Corps of Engineers
offices here Nov. 15 to demand recognition of treaty rights and
protection of water sources at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North
Dakota.
“I am here to bring awareness and to protect the water,” Verlin Wells, a
Native American from Welch, told the Militant. Many thousands have
visited Standing Rock to express solidarity with its fight against
routing the Dakota Access Pipeline near the reservation. Wells has made
three trips and said it is very powerful to have “every one there for
the same reason, standing together.”
The Corps has called for more study and tribal input before issuing
permits to Energy Transfer Partners to complete the pipeline. The
company has asked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to declare it has
the right to continue the construction. “There’s not another way. We’re
crossing at this location,” CEO Kelcy Warren told Associated Press Nov. 18.
— HELEN MEYERS
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