North Dakota Native Protesters Set to Mark Thanksgiving Under Government Siege
SputnikNews.com
24.11.2016
While US citizens cook Turkeys for Thanksgiving dinner tables, Native American protesters in North Dakota continue being seriously injured in clashes with heavily-weaponized security forces.
Thanksgiving Day is commonly associated in America with the Pilgrims and “the Indians” sitting down to a big harvest feast in 1621 to celebrate a peace treaty. But there is no end in sight for the violence in North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is being brutally attacked while it desperately struggles to stop the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.
“I’m a prisoner of war in my own land,” said Frank Sanchez, a 61-year-old delegate from the Yankton Sioux Tribe, in an interview with The Huffington Post. “That’s the only way I can see it.”
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