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35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

Trista June 6, 2019 16 min

Plimoth Patuxet Museums - Thanksgiving — Jennie A. Brownscombe's "The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" from 1914. Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

5. Do You Remember the Keystone XL Pipeline?

Many people did not favor the drilling of an oil pipeline, so they marched at the capitol. William Yeatman / fee.org.

Oil has a way of really messing up the environment. Drilling for it poisons water supplies and catastrophically disrupts local ecosystems. Transporting it leads to oil spills and burning it for fuel is a leading cause of climate change. When major oil companies tried to build a pipeline through Sioux territory in North Dakota, the native people fought back.

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5. Do You Remember the Keystone XL Pipeline?

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