One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders will advance the way for the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline project in North Dakota to move forward. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, tribes across the nation and their supporters have protested, arguing that the project will damage sacred burial sites and may contaminate the tribe’s main source for drinking water.
The Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis will tackle issues surrounding the pipeline during the “Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice Symposium: From Standing Rock to St. Louis” Monday, Feb. 6.