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December 19, 2016

First Group of Water Protectors Head to Trial in North Dakota Today
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In North Dakota, prosecutor Ladd Erickson is petitioning a judge in
Morton County to exclude information about the $3.8 billion Dakota
Access pipeline, as well as issues of Native American sovereignty, from
the courtroom when the first group of water protectors goes on trial
today on charges of disorderly conduct. The 10 water protectors are the
first to go to trial amid the months-long resistance to the pipeline,
led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and members of 200 other indigenous
nations from across the Americas. About 500 people have been arrested in
total.


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