Are Environmentalists Using Native Americans, and Does It Matter?

SHOWDOWN AT BIG SKY

More than 200 tribes are protesting an oil pipeline in North Dakota, joined by activists who don’t want it there or anywhere.

Published Sep. 6 2016 1:00AM EDT

articles/2016/09/06/are-environmentalists-using-native-americans-and-does-it-matter/160905-michaelson-pipeline-tease_d3ruey — ROBYN BECK

In an unprecedented show of inter-tribal cooperation not seen, according to one elder, since the Battle of Big Horn, thousands of activists from at least 200 Native American tribes have gathered in a remote part of North Dakota to protest the construction of a new oil pipeline.

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Are Environmentalists Using Native Americans, and Does It Matter?

More than 200 tribes are protesting an oil pipeline in North Dakota, joined by activists who don’t want it there or anywhere.

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Jay Michaelson