Indigenous leaders marched from Sacred Stone Camp to the Dakota Access pipeline construction zone. Earlier that week, the people blockading the pipeline were met with violence by the Dakota Access private security company. “Thousands have gathered peacefully in Standing Rock in solidarity against the pipeline,” said Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II, as he later addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council. “And yet many water protectors have been threatened and even injured by the pipeline’s security officers. One child was bitten and injured by a guard dog. We stand in peace but have been met with violence.”
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