Oil pipeline protest

A protest of a four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned violent Saturday after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land in southern North Dakota.

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Sun., Sept. 4, 2016

Jon Don Ilone Reed, an Army veteran and member of South Dakota's Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, poses for a photo at an oil pipeline protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in southern North Dakota, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. Reed said he fought in Iraq and is now fighting "fighting for our children and our water."

James Macpherson Associated Press
A person sits in protest at the site of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in central North Dakota, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Authorities say that they have cut free the man who bound himself to construction equipment as part of a protest at a Dakota Access oil pipeline about 20 miles west of a main protest site in North Dakota.

Tom Stromme The Bismarck Tribune
Some of the more than 100 protesters were placed under arrest on trespassing charges on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Boone, Iowa, as they gathered to voice their opinion against the development of the Bakken Pipeline during a rally on four of the entrances to the pipeline construction site.

Bryon Houlgrave The Des Moines Register
Julia Slocum of Ames, Iowa, is placed under arrest on trespassing charges by a member of the Boone County Sherrif's Department on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Boone, Iowa. People gathered to voice their opinion against the development of the Bakken Pipeline during a rally on four of the entrances to the pipeline construction site.

Bryon Houlgrave The Des Moines Register
Joye Braun, an organizer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline opposition, poses for a photo at a protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in southern North Dakota on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. Braun has been at the protest site since April and has vowed to remain until the project is killed.

James Macpherson Associated Press
Wambli Johnson poses for photo at an oil pipeline protest near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in southern North Dakota on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. The 11-year-old donated $150 to protest organizers that she earned by selling homemade laundry soap at northern Arizona's Black Mesa, on the Navajo Nation.

James Macpherson Associated Press