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By Chip Ward | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Americans who don’t live in the West may think that the historic clash of Native Americans and pioneering settlers is long past because the Indians were, after all, defeated and now drive cars, watch television...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s executive actions on the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines are aimed at turning the much-protested pipelines into reality. Here’s a look at what may be next for the two pipelines: WHAT THEY ARE AND...

For months, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota has been waging a pitched battle against a proposed oil pipeline that would run near their reservation — arguing that it would endanger both their water supplies and sacred sites. These protests...

The $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), if completed, would carry up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil daily from the Dakotas to refineries in Illinois. Along the way it would cross the Missouri River, the main source of drinking water and irrigation...

As we gear up for the last presidential debate, we know that many important questions are not being answered. “Presidential foreign policy discussions, for example, are now basically limited to who hates ISIS more, who said what 13 years ago, and who...