Archambault was booked into the Morton County Jail and released on bond late afternoon.
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He was among several arrested when protesters, aiming to prevent pipeline workers from leaving the site, pushed back against a police line.
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About 28 people have been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct since last week, including Standing Rock tribal chairman Dave Archambault.
After a rumor of human remains being found at the construction site spread, State Historical Society of North Dakota officials inspected the site on Friday but found no evidence of any cultural site or remains. Some protesters came on horseback, and some were beating drums.
“They’re trying to lay a pipe across our water”.
The four-state pipeline’s path in North Dakota would cross beneath the Little Missouri River once and the Missouri River twice.
Protests began to escalate Thursday evening.
About 200 Indians blocked crews from working near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in southern North Dakota, according to media reports.
But supporters of the pipeline argue oil drilling is needed to employ workers, help Bakken oil production – which is in decline – and advance North and South Dakota in the energy industry. “Standing Rock wants there to be peace”.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland granted Dakota Access pipeline the preliminary injunction today, Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at 10:20 a.m. effective when the defendants are served. Along the way it’ll run under the Missouri River, very close to the Standing Rock reservation.
The pipeline will be an underground artery of Bakken crude, pulsing almost a half-million barrels daily from the oil patch to near Chicago.
Heitkamp, D-N.D., said in a statement to Forum News Service that oil pipelines are an important part of energy infrastructure as North Dakota reduces its reliance on moving crude by rail.
“We’re ready for 5,000 campers”, said Joye Braun, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network. The protesters are scheduled to make initial appearances on September 13. Reporter Amy Sisk also works with Prairie Public Broadcasting in Bismarck, North Dakota.
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They were transported by van to the Morton County jail, where they were booked and allowed to post standard bonds, Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said. He said he expected more arrests and acts of civil disobedience to continue, calling the pipeline “a black poisonous snake” that “is made from nothing but greed”, he said.
