Nebraska tribes join fight against Dakota Access pipeline with downtown Omaha demonstration
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Jeffrey Robb
Four Nebraska Native American tribes adopted the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline as their own Thursday, arguing that the oil pipeline set to run from North Dakota to Illinois endangers their water and the Missouri River itself.
Around 200 people, including members of the tribes, participated in a demonstration in downtown Omaha outside the offices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Protests against the pipeline have picked up closer to the pipeline in North Dakota as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe fights the project.
Thursday, those pipeline opponents found Nebraska allies in the Omaha, Ponca, Winnebago and Sioux Tribes, along with pipeline-fighting group Bold Nebraska and its leader, Jane Kleeb. The participants called themselves not protesters but protectors of the water and defenders of Mother Earth.
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