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Ojibwe Pipeline Protestors Sue Minn. Sheriff Over Blockade
Law360 (July 20, 2021, 9:07 PM EDT) Two Ojibwe women have sued a Minnesota sheriff for allegedly blocking access to private property where Native protesters of the Enbridge pipeline gathered, in what they call the most militarized response to an easement dispute in history.
In a complaint filed against the Hubbard County Sheriff s Office on Friday, Ojibwe activists Winona LaDuke and Tara Houska said that police descended on LaDuke s property, blocked her driveway, and arrested several residents and guests over three days. According to Sheriff Corwin Aukes,150 feet of the driveway technically belongs to the county.
Line 3 Opponents Allege ‘Blockade’ of Camp in Property Dispute
Northern Minnesota sheriffs offices have blocked a route to a major protest camp, citing a 1928 tax forfeiture.
Activists occupy construction equipment at an Enbridge Line 3 pump station near Park Rapids, Minn., on Monday, June 7, 2021. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
MENAHGA, Minn. (CN) A new lawsuit alleges that a rural Minnesota county and its sheriff’s office have escalated a property dispute as a pretext to blockade, harass and incriminate opponents of the controversial Line 3 oil pipeline, which is a characterization disputed by the sheriff himself.
The suit, filed in Hubbard County District Court Friday afternoon, alleges that the northern Minnesota county’s sheriff, Corwin Aukes, has used a dispute over an easement issue to blockade a property where many pipeline opponents have camped in recent months. Law enforcement officials from the Hubbard County Sheriff’s Office and other agenci