"Native American people know that water is the first medicine, not just for us, but for all human beings living on this earth." The petition was the cornerstone of the Standing Rock Youth's # ...

The very public fight to stop a pipeline company from crossing sacred land and water may be helping open ... While the decision is a victory for Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other ...

Janet Alkire, chairwoman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe On March 20, a Morton County, North Dakota, jury delivered a judicial bludgeoning of Water Protectors and Indian people. The jury ruled ...

The Standing Rock Sioux Nation ... from front-line indigenous people succeeded in stopping the $3.8 billion, 1,200-mile pipeline in its tracks. As water protectors celebrated in the frozen camps ...

culminating in tear gas and water cannons being used against protestors. The camps were cleared in February of 2017. More than 140 people were arrested at the Standing Rock protests. One of the ...

Hundreds of original nations and millions of other people have joined the Standing Rock Sioux tribe's historical resistance to the pipeline — resistance to sacred-site desecration, water and climate ...

The pipeline company claimed Greenpeace organized the historic Standing Rock protests in 2016 and 2017, which were led by Indigenous water and land defenders. Lawyers for Greenpeace are appealing ...

Following the nine-person jury's verdict ... claiming a risk to its water supply. Photo shows Protesters demonstrate in solidarity with members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota.