The first U.S. president to officially commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day is facing backlash for supporting the Line 3 tar sands pipeline and other fossil-fuel expansion projects.
Native American Protesters Hit by Sonic Weapons in DC
Tag: Dakota Access Pipeline
Tribes Celebrate Court-Ordered Shutdown of Pipeline
A federal judge has shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline after years of bitter protests at the site.
A Tradition of Forgetting Indian Rights
Ironically, as Americans commemorate how Native Americans helped save the Pilgrims in 1621, Indian-rights activists are under attack today in defense of land that a 1868 treaty guaranteed as theirs, observes Nat Parry.
Police Clash with Pipeline Protesters
The confluence of the twin issues of Native American respect for the land and modern environmentalists’ alarm over global warming has met in resistance to a North Dakota oil pipeline, observed Ann Wright.