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awoke_in_2003

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10. The pipeline was originally supposed to cross the Missouri

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Tue Nov 1, 2016, 07:45 PM

Nov 2016

upstream from Bismark, but it was moved due to concern that Bismark's water supply would be contaminated. So, they moved the crossing a half a mile upstream from the reservation. This is exactly how we have treated Native Americans for 400 years.

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