He said he was not aware of any injuries to protesters or law enforcement.
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“A lot of our people want to be here and pray for our future”, tribal Chairman Harold Frazier said.
The state planned to send a bus to the site at midday to transport anyone to Bismarck, where officials were doling out basic necessities, along with hotel and bus vouchers.
Trump’s reversal violated treaty rights, he said. They were placed in plastic handcuffs and transported in vans. Law enforcement carried the vets from the camp, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. A helicopter and airplane flew overhead. Tribal officials, along with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, are moving to clear those camps and may get some help from the state.
Highway Patrol Lt. Tom Iverson said the operation would continue as the camp was emptied voluntarily or by force.
“Under that duress, we had to leave but we did so with dignity”, Nanamkin said. Rain falling on law enforcement and demonstrators turned to fat snowflakes.
Some protesters set fire to wooden structures Wednesday morning as a part of a ceremony of leaving. And hundreds of protesters remain in the area.
Republican Governor Doug Burgum and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had set a 2 p.m. CST (2000 GMT) deadline for protesters to leave the Oceti Sakowin camp, located on Army Corps land in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
Ron Starr, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe who was on the camp cleanup crew, said he was sad to see the camp close. However, a traditional wigwam was demolished Thursday.
Thousands of protesters, tons of garbage and almost 750 arrests later, the Dakota Access pipeline occupation wrapped up Thursday as law enforcement cleared stragglers from the floodplain in preparation for the massive clean-up ahead.
“It’s been heart-wrenching”, said Braun, an organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network. By lighting them on fire we send their smoke up like prayers. “If anything, it’s furthering our resolve”. About 200 protesters left peacefully, with another 56 being arrested over two days for defying the order to leave. The meeting was held in the ditch alongside N.D. Highway 1806, the participants tightly girdled on all sides by media and people from the camps. “You can’t arrest a spiritual revolution”. One protester avoided arrest for more than an hour by climbing to the top of a building.
Some 10 activists who had remained after the 2pm deadline passed were arrested, according to the North Dakota Joint Information Center.
An American Indian activist who opposes the Dakota Access oil pipeline says the shutdown of the main protest camp in North Dakota isn’t the end of the fight.
PAUSE invites any concerned New Yorkers to join them at TD Bank at 125 State St.in Albany today, Thursday, Feb. 23 at noon.
A 17 year-old girl was flown to a Minneapolis medical center with severe burns to her hands and face, authorities said.
“I just hope all entities handle it gracefully, not forcefully”, she said.
The incident is now under investigation. “The order also addresses the need to protect the Missouri River from the waste that will flow into the Cannonball River and Lake Oahe if the camp is not cleared and the cleanup expedited”.
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Officers checked structures and began arresting people, putting them in vans to take them to jail.
