In this Nov. 24, 2016 photo, people stand on the edge of Cantapeta Creek near the growing Sacred Stones Overflow Protest Camp in Morton County, N.D. The leader of the Cheyenne River Sioux in South Dakota is calling for all opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline to boycott businesses in North Dakota’s capital city. (Tom Stromme/Bismarck Tribune via AP) (Associated Press)
As of 1:35 p.m. (local time) on November 26, this is the latest from the protest site:
Dakota Access pipeline protesters say they don’t intend to leave their encampment in the near future.If the right-wing Bundy flakes in Oregon could occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and be acquitted on all charges, why can't these native protesters occupy this particular piece of federal land?
Isaac Weston is a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe from South Dakota. He was one of several people who spoke at a news conference Saturday in response to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to close land where hundreds have been camping for months.
Weston says indigenous people are the wardens of the land and the government can’t remove them. He says they have a right to be there, and they are protecting the land and water.
Others say they don’t believe the Corps will force protesters off the federal land north of the Cannonball River on Dec. 5, but that the government’s letter put the protesters on notice and limits the Corps’ liability.
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