By Laura Bassett
WASHINGTON ― Thanksgiving began in the fall of 1621 when a group of
Native Americans joined with newly arrived English settlers to create a
harvest feast together and protect each other from violence.
This year, as Americans pick out their turkeys and count their
blessings, members of the Sioux Nation in Standing Rock, North Dakota,
reported being attacked with tear gas,
rubber bullets and water cannons in subfreezing temperatures as they
protested an oil pipeline that threatens to contaminate their water and
disrupt their sacred sites. Approximately 300 Native American and
non-native protesters were injured in one 10-hour clash with law
enforcement on Sunday evening, according to the Standing Rock Medic
& Healer Council, and 26 were taken to hospitals with severe head
and limb wounds, eye trauma, internal bleeding and hypothermia from
being doused with water in 22-degree weather.
“Basically, it’s an act of war,” said Frank Sanchez, a delegate from
the Yankton Sioux Tribe, in an interview with The Huffington Post.
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Source: The Huffington Post
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