'For as long as it takes': Native American protesters defy North Dakota pipeline construction

Hundreds of Native American and environmental activists descend on the site where a $3.7bn pipeline is being constructed, and 18 have been arrested so far

• ‘We are protectors, not protesters’: why I’m fighting the North Dakota pipeline

Joey Montoya, like other protesters near Cannon Ball, at the northern boundary of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, sees himself as not just protecting the local community from a new oil pipeline – but also the country and the earth.

“Native communities are always just the first to be affected. We’re always at the front lines when oil companies come in.”

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Source: Guardian Environment