Standing Rock Sioux: 'we can't back down now' on Dakota pipeline fight
by Julia Carrie Wong and Sam Levin in San Francisco from Environment | The Guardian on (#2A3G6)
Donald Trump's revival of the Dakota Access pipeline is a stunning twist of fate, but the tribe and its supporters say now is the time to show strength
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters are vowing to resist Donald Trump's executive order to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline with legal action, civil disobedience and a return to the "water protector" encampments.
"President Trump is legally required to honor our treaty rights and provide a fair and reasonable pipeline process," said Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman Dave Archambault, who called Trump's action "politically motivated".
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