Pipeline’s planned route takes it close to Standing Rock Sioux reservation and Cannon Ball,which could endanger drinking water and threaten sacred sitesThe Cannonball river flows into the mighty Missouri approximately 50 miles due south of Bismarck, North Dakota.
At its confluence, and a protest encampment – really a series of camps,on both sides of the Cannonball, strewn with kitchens and canteens, and portable toilets,stabling for horses, sweat lodges and tall teepees, and stands selling indigenous art – has sprung up. Related: Faces of the North Dakota pipeline protest: 'Sacred land is who we are' Related: 'We are protectors,not protesters': why I'm fighting the North Dakota pipeline Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com