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These Native American Youths Are Running 2,000 Miles to Protect Their Water

Type
Literature
Publication
Dunlap, Tiare. These Native American Youths Are Running 2,000 Miles to Protect Their Water. People. 2016.
Year Published
2016
Organization
People
Description

Native and environmental groups alike have been protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,168-mile conduit that would carry fracked oil from North Dakota all the way to Illinois, for two years. They argue that the Missouri River, which the pipeline would cross under, is too precious a water source to risk contamination from an oil spill or leak.