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The Dakota Access Pipeline protests, also called by the hashtag #NoDAPL, were grassroots movements that began in early 2016 in reaction to the approved construction of Energy Transfer Partners' Dakota Access Pipeline in the northern United States.

The pipeline was projected to run from the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota to southern Illinois, crossing beneath the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, as well as under part of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Many in the Standing Rock tribe and surrounding communities considered the pipeline and its intended crossing beneath the Missouri River would cause harm to the region's drinking water, as well as to the water supply used to irrigate surrounding farmlands. The construction was also seen as a direct threat to ancient burial grounds and cultural sites of historic importance.

Almost 500 people were arrested during the protests.

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  • Cannon Ball, ND

    Cannonball river area, North Dakota

  • Dakota Access Pipe Line, Central Iowa

    The Dakota Access Pipeline being built in central Iowa

  • Sacred Stone Camp North Dakota (29167637232)

    Sacred Stone Camp

  • SSC DAPL S2A 432 crop 10 annotated (30380529543) (cropped)

    Campsite location

  • Lake Oahe, SD, winter

    Lake Oahe in winter

  • NoDAPL-Drums-JohnDuffy

    Seattle Stands with Standing Rock! - peaceful march and rally held in Seattle in September 2016. Indigenous drummers, activists from a number of Nations, and diverse supporters march in solidarity.

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    Dakota Access Pipeline protestors at March for a Clean Energy Revolution, Philadelphia, July 2016

  • Solidarity rally against the Dakota Access Pipeline (St. Paul, Minnesota)

    Solidarity rally in Saint Paul, Minnesota, September 2016.

  • Stand with Standing Rock SF Nov 2016 11

    Standing Rock solidarity march in San Francisco, November 2016.

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    Native Nations Rise march in Washington D.C., March 2017.

  • ReZpect Our Water logo

    ReZpect Our Water - logo of the water runners, youth who ran from Standing Rock to Washington DC to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline in the summer of 2016

  • 2017-03-10 Native Nations March 4

    Native Nations March in Washington, DC. 2017

  • Dakota Access Pipeline protesters against Donald Trump (31619797533)

    Banner against the pipeline in a 2017 inauguration day protest in Minnesota

  • Donald Trump signs orders to green-light the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines

    Trump signing the Presidential memorandum to advance the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. January 24, 2017

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