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Thursday, November 20, 2014
Lakota song celebrating defeat of pipeline leads to arrest in Senate - video
Greg Grey Cloud came to Washington for meetings Sunday with South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson and other lawmakers. He never planned on being arrested in the U.S. Capitol two days later.
But Grey Cloud, a South Dakota resident and a member of the Crow Creek Tribe located 2-1/2 hours northwest of Sioux Falls, was taken into custody Tuesday night after he started singing a song he said was meant to honor those lawmakers who voted against the Keystone XL pipeline. The Senate narrowly defeated legislation that would have approved construction of the pipeline – part of which would cross South Dakota. Grey Cloud was one of five people arrested, but the only one from a Native American tribe...more
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