On Thanksgiving Week, Native Americans Are Being Tear-Gassed in North Dakota

On Thanksgiving Week, Native Americans Are Being Tear-Gassed in North Dakota
“Basically, it’s an act of war,” a Sioux leader says.
Laura Bassett Senior Politics Reporter, The Huffington Post 11/23/2016 07:01 am

WASHINGTON ― Thanksgiving began in the fall of 1621 when a group of Native Americans joined with newly arrived English settlers to create a harvest feast together and protect each other from violence.

This year, as Americans pick out their turkeys and count their blessings, members of the Sioux Nation in Standing Rock, North Dakota, reported being attacked with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in subfreezing temperatures as they protested an oil pipeline that threatens to contaminate their water and disrupt their sacred sites.

Approximately 300 Native American and non-native protesters were injured in one 10-hour clash with law enforcement on Sunday evening, according to the Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council, and 26 were taken to hospitals with severe head and limb wounds, eye trauma, internal bleeding and hypothermia from being doused with water in 22-degree weather.

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