As we discussed in class, there’s currently a large, peaceful encampment of the Great Sioux Nation is praying for a federal court decision around the North Dakota Access Pipeline. This pipeline is very similar to the much more famous Keystone XL Pipeline, and it is only since thousands of Native American Indians have begun camping near the Cannonball River in ND that some media attention has come to this project.

Here is an op-ed written by David Achambault II in The New York Times from this morning

And here is a short video by Democracy Now on the ongoing protests of the pipeline.

“Stoping the Snake: Indigenous Protestors Shut Down Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.” Democracy Now. Youtube. 2016.

Photo credit: Kim Ryu, from the New York Times Op-ed.