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Indigenous Immigrants Visit Standing Rock - Hundreds of members of the Sioux Tribe of Standing Rock, in North Dakota, and their allies, are still protesting the construction of an oil pipeline by the company Dakota Access, which would cross their ancestral lands. Last week, the police escalated their use of force, attacking protesters with freezing cold water and tear gas. In their struggle against a project that would damage sacred sites and pollute their drinking water, the Sioux have gained support among tribes and indigenous communities all over the United States and Mexico. Purepecha leaders who immigrated from Mexico to Oregon and Washington visited a camp at Standing Rock. Radio Bilingüe’s news director Samuel Orozco spoke with Purepecha leader Albertina Vallejo, of Woodburn, Oregon, about the visit.
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