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Santa Feans Go to No DAPL Protests

Santa Fe citizens have been traveling to CannonBall, North Dakota to attend the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The protests concentrate on concerns by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe about their water supply and sacred sites.

The pipeline would transport crude oil from western North Dakota to Illinois under the Missouri River, The Missouri is the sole water source for the Standing Rock Sioux. The route would carry 570k barrels of crude oil a day across four Midwestern states. 

On Saturday, things turned violent when the security firm for pipeline developer Dakota Access unleased dogs and mace on the protestors. The security firm contended that the protesters had crossed a fence after Dakota Access used  a private property easement to bulldoze a 150 foot area of Standing Rock Sioux burial grounds. Santa Fe resident Sarah Knopp is there. She is attending the protests as a citizen activist. She works in Santa Fe as Program Director for Cultural Freedom for Lannan Foundation.