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35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

Trista June 6, 2019 16 min
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Jennie A. Brownscombe's "The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" from 1914. Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

4. More Than 100 Tribes Protested the Pipeline

People protesting the pipeline construction in 2014. Diaa Bekheet / VOA.

Native Americans have long had ties to the land and the environment that non-natives can scarcely comprehend. They understand how much our future and survival is intertwined with the ecosystems that we inhabit. As such, they came together to resist the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

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