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September 10th, 2016 
Awake Goy The fight has drawn thousands of Native Americans and activists to protest the project, making for intense media coverage. The government’s pause is a means for acknowledging complaints from the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribal nations, who voiced their concerns that they had not been fully heard prior to federal overseers approving a pipeline that the tribe urged would harm their water supplies and ancestral cultural sites.
The fight sparked outrage from the Justice Department and other agencies, who called for “serious discussion on whether there should be nationwide reform with respect to considering tribes’ views on these types of infrastructure projects.”
The tribe referred to the federal order as “a game changer.”
The government’s announcement came mere minutes after a federal judge rejected efforts by the Standing Rock Sioux to halt construction on the North Dakota oil pipeline.
A joint statement from the Army and the Departments of Justice and the Interior, revealed that the pause would be applied to the pipeline’s path across a sliver of federal lands and under a dammed section of the Missouri River known as Lake Oahe. The lake is a water source for the Standing Rock Sioux.
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