By Juliet Eilperin February 3 at 9:06 PM
The federal government announced Friday that it was dispatching Bureau
of Indian Affairs agents to help clear Dakota Access Pipeline protesters
from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation….
In response to a directive from President Trump, this week the acting secretary of the Army, Robert Speer, ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to expedite review of an easement for the pipeline to run under Lake Oahe….
Acting assistant secretary of Indian affairs Michael S. Black said
the agency had sent “enforcement support and will assist” the tribe “in
closing the protest camps within the Standing Rock Reservation
boundary.”…
The Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe had already passed a tribal resolution asking
protesters to leave and requesting federal aid in closing the camp.
“In
these past few weeks at camp, I see no reflection of our earlier unity,
and without unity we lose,” the tribe’s chairman, David Archambault II,
said in a statement.
Bureau of Indian Affairs sending agents to help clear Dakota Access protesters from site
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