Pipeline construction gives rise to debate on Minnesota reservation By: Associated Press April 5, 2021
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Hundreds gather along the Mississippi River in St. Paul on March 11 to call on President Joe Biden to stop the tar sands Line 3 pipeline that Enbridge is currently constructing in northern Minnesota. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
By DAN KRAKER
Minnesota Public Radio News
FOND du LAC INDIAN RESERVATION, Minn. (AP) About a month ago, Taysha Martineau walked out of the protest camp she built in a small patch of woods near her home on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and knelt in the middle of the road.
FOND du LAC INDIAN RESERVATION, Minn. (AP) â About a month ago, Taysha Martineau walked out of the protest camp she built in a small patch of woods near her home on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and knelt in the middle of the road.
Elders from her community surrounded her, scolding, telling her to leave.
âGo!â they shouted. âWe want you out of here! Donât do this to us!â
For several weeks, Martineau had been welcoming activists to the plot of land she had dubbed Camp Migizi â which means âeagleâ in the Ojibwe language â to take part in the yearslong fight against the Line 3 oil pipeline, a 380-mile replacement project that Enbridge Energy began building across northern Minnesota in December.
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