The protests expanded, attracting indigenous people, not just from North America, but around the world, including Sami from Lapland. Carole Lindstrom reads ‘We Are Water Protectors’ at the Wood County District Public Library. The protest started with one woman sitting in the path of the construction to protect the graves of her family. Then it was rerouted through land occupied by the Sioux and under Lake Oahe, which is sacred to native people. The pipeline was originally supposed to run from North Dakota, through an area just north of Bismarck, North Dakota, a region predominantly populated by White residents. Not enough attention was being paid to the conflict, she told an audience at the Wood County District Public Library Saturday morning.
A citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe who grew up in Nebraska, the writer, now living in Maryland, was hearing reports of the increasing tensions between indigenous people at the Standing Rock Reservation and the crews cutting though the land to construct the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline. Carole Lindstrom was concerned in fall 2016 about the news coming back from the region where she was raised.
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