A U.S. State Department consultation with tribes over the Keystone XL pipeline was shut down Thursday in Rapid City by tribal leaders. Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, Nez Perce, Ponca, and Pawnee leaders joined together in walking out of the consultation after they discovered they were meeting with two people they later referred to as “low level clerks.”
Tribal Leaders Walk Out On State Department Consultation
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Tribal leaders at news conference. At far left is Bryan Brewer, President, Oglala Sioux Tribe. At far right is Silas Whitman, chairman of the Nez Perce Executive Committee, and to the left of Whitman is Casey Camp, a Ponca from North Central Oklahoma.
Victoria Wicks
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Casey Camp-Horinek tells of the destruction to her people and land from extraction of fuels and establishment of a landfill.
Victoria Wicks
