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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.

1. The Keystone Pipeline Was Approved

Protestors were blasted with water cannons. The Atlantic.

Though President Obama said that he supported the native rights to the land, and tried to delay the progress, he helped push through the Keystone Pipeline project. When President Trump took office in 2017, one of the first things that he did was make the construction of the pipeline through Sioux territory even easier. Almost immediately, there was an oil spill that, as predicted, poisoned native lands.

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