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Winona LaDuke Reflects on Standing Rock
Winona LaDuke, longtime Native American activist, rural development economist, author and executive director of the group Honor the Earth, recounts her year spent living in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to protest the completion of the (now-approved) Dakota Access Pipeline, and talks about her environmental justice work going forward.