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Native Americans Vow a Last Stand to Block Keystone XL Pipeline

2014-02-17 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

McClatchy: Faith Spotted Eagle figures that building a crude oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast would bring little to Indian Country besides more crime and dirty water, but she doubts that Native Americans will ever get the U.S. government to block the $7 billion project. "There is no way for Native people to say no -- there never has been," said Spotted Eagle, 65, a Yankton Sioux tribal elder from Lake Andes, S.D. "Our history has caused us not to be optimistic. . . . When you have capitalism,...

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