
A New Movement on Standing Rock
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The Pipeline and Its Impact on the Environment
Students from all over the country who were participating in the movement ended up travelling between different tribes camps to learn from elders and tribal members. Almost a year after the first people from standing rock decided to camp, the governor of north dakota told water protectors they needed to leave. Yei i remember that day really clearly. I had been following the movement for months, along with other native students at my college. And when people were forced to pack up in the snow, it was incredibly heart breaking. And then in june 20, seventeenth, oil started flowing through a completed pipeline. It's gone back and forth in the courts since. Ultimately a judge ruled that the company behind
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