Louis Wayne Ballard or "Honga-no-zhe," meaning "Grand Eagle" in Quapaw was born on July 8, 1931, in Devil s Promenade, Okla., near Miami. His mother was Quapaw; his father Cherokee. At 6, he was sent to the Seneca Indian Training School, where the goal was to assimilate him into white American culture.
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Anti-pipeline protesters at Nebraska State Capitol in 2017
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January 20, 2021 - 5:11pm
Work on the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline halted the same day President Joe Biden revoked the federal permits needed to deliver tar sands oil across the Canadian border.
Construction may never resume.
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Member of Operating Engineers Local 571 prepares to testify at a public hearing in 2017.