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Standing firm at Standing Rock: Discussing the Largest Political Action by Indigenous Americans since Wounded Knee in ‘73


By dlindorff - Posted on 22 September 2016

By Dave Lindorff

Levi Rickert, editor of Native News Online, a national publication of by and for the indigenous peoples of North America, talks about what he calls the most significant political action by Native Americans since the American Indian Movement's 1973 Wounded Knee occupation on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.

Native people blocking construction of an oil pipeline across Sioux sacred lands

 

Standing firm at Standing Rock: Native people blocking construction of an oil pipeline across Sioux sacred lands

 




Rickert, a guest on Dave Lindorff's weekly "This Can't Be Happening!" radio program on theProgressive Radio Network, tells how activists from over 200 Indian tribes as well as representatives of indigenous peoples from around the world have converged at Standing Rock in North Dakota to help the local embattled Standing Rock Sioux People defend their land and water against despoilation by the Army Corps of Engineers, which is trying to construct a pipeline across Sioux lands to carry Bakkan Field crude oil to St. Louis.

Levi Rickert, editor of Native News OnlineLevi Rickert, editor of Native News Online

To hear the whole half-hour interview, go to PRN.fm's 'This Can't Be Happening!'

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