PBS News Hour

Pipeline battle brews between Indigenous tribes, oil company

A protracted stand-off between a major oil company and northern Indigenous American tribes intensified this week over the construction of a pipeline in Minnesota. Tara Houska, an attorney, founder of the advocacy organization Giniw Collective and a member of the Couchiching First Nation, joins Stephanie Sy from the construction site where the pipeline is being built.

Pipeline battle brews between Indigenous tribes, oil company

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