‘It’s cultural genocide’: inside the fight to stop a pipeline on tribal lands

by Sheila Regain, The Guardian: The Line 3 route traverses land that Native American pipeline opponents say is protected by US treaties with Ojibwe nations. Dressed in a ribbon skirt and mask, Tara Houska gazed down at the trickling waters of the Mississippi near its headwaters. The great American river that eventually flows into the Gulf of Mexico is just a stream in these parts of northern Minnesota. Continue reading…