Understand that the pipeline company paid for and was granted access by the feds. Not the tribe or protestors.
True. Which was the real reason the Indians made a stink about the pipeline. It was routed around their land and they were not eligible to receive money from the Feds for the pipeline 'access'.
Then the media got involved, and all the communist front groups, and it turned into a mini-BURNING MAN FESTIVAL. Nobody at the 'protest camp' gave a shit about the Indians.
The Indians lost twice on this deal, and now, if the TRASH isn't cleaned up, it will wash into the RIVER and POLLUTE it.