Detroit Demonstrators Enter Protest of Dakota Access Pipeline

(Posted Nov. 17, 2016) DETROIT, MI— Detroit area activists were among those taking a stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota over the proposed oil transmission that Energy Transfer Partners wants to run through sacred burial grounds, the Detroit Free Press reported.

Local protests have taken place as well, including at Campus Martius Park in downtown Detroit, where about 200 demonstrators marched, including Chantal Gros-Louis, a Wyandot-Huron Indian who grew up on the Windake reservation in Quebec, Canada, and has lived in the Detroit area for 16 years.

"I support the Lakota people against the pipeline there," she told the Free Press. "Pipelines are not a good idea because they are very dangerous. Everything breaks eventually.

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