They had come to support the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe. After praying and singing, people
in the camp drove over dirt roads to a nearby
construction site. Giant pieces of pipe lay on bare
ground. Workers were constructing a pipeline that
would stretch 1,200 miles (1,900 km) from North
Dakota to Illinois.
The construction was set to go through land
that was
sacred
to the Standing Rock Sioux.
According to the company building it, the Dakota Access
Pipeline created 12,000 temporary construction jobs.
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