35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

Trista - June 6, 2019

35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights
Many people did not favor the drilling of an oil pipeline, so they marched at the capitol. William Yeatman / fee.org.

5. Do You Remember the Keystone XL Pipeline?

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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