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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Takes #NoDAPL Fight to the United Nations
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II asked the United Nations for help Tuesday in preventing the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built. Archambault spoke at the 33rd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which runs Sept. 13-30 in Geneva. Archambault told the council that oil companies are causing the deliberate destruction of “our…
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#NoDAPL Protests Continue as the Movement Gains Nationwide Momentum
It began earlier this year in North Dakota when members of the Standing Rock, Rosebud and Lower Brule Lakota tribes blocked construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, but the #NoDAPL movement has grown in force and picked up supporters in states across the nation. Nearly 300 other tribal groups and celebrities such as Rosario Dawson, Susan Sarandon, Ben…
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#NoDAPL Protesters Arrested at Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Site
Less than a week after North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple activated the North Dakota National Guard to reinforce security at a construction site for the Dakota Access oil pipeline, police in riot gear arrived on the scene of a #NoDAPL protest Tuesday and arrested 20 people, according to independent news outlet Unicorn Riot. Among those arrested…
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Black Solidarity With First Nations Is Complicated, Sacred and Necessary
I was born and raised as a descendant of enslaved Africans on Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho land. I was born on the front range of the Rocky Mountains where Pike’s Peak’s massive snowcapped summit caused the sun to set 20 minutes earlier. Raised on a small family ranch with pigs, sheep and llamas, I grew…