Security guards working at a Dakota Access Pipeline construction site used dogs against the #NoDAPL resisters on September 3, 2016. Photo by Sacred Stone Camp
Sarah Sunshine Manning reports on a violent confrontation between #NoDAPL resisters and security guards working on the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. Several people were hurt when they were bitten by dogs and others were sprayed with chemicals:
On the afternoon of September 3, a procession of prayerful water defenders, consisting of men, women, and children, walked on foot up to the original protest site where the first demonstrations took place in early August. Unbeknownst to them, Dakota Access construction workers were fast at work, approximately a mile up the road, bulldozing the earth, destroying graves and sacred sites, while creating a path for pipe to be laid. “We were walking up to the flags on the highway to sing and pray, then we found out they were starting to build again,” Ursula Young Bear, Oglala Lakota, from Porcupine, South Dakota, told ICTMN. Marcus Frejo, Pawnee and Seminole, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was also among the first water defenders to arrive on the scene of construction. “We made it to the top of the hill and saw several bulldozers and trucks, and we walked up to the fence,” Frejo told ICTMN. “There’s sacred sites up there, so one woman stepped through the fence, just feet in, telling them with her son at her side that this is sacred land. She yelled at them to stop.”Read More on the Story:
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