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Water protectors join hands in prayer at the end of the day's protest as police line the hill at Standing Rock on Nov. 24, 2016, during an ongoing dispute over the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

FBI sent informants to Standing Rock

Alleen Brown - Grist
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How polluters silence activists

Robin Scher - Alternet
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The biggest threat to the resistance

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
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The DAPL anti-protester lawsuit

Justine Calma - Grist
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This Sept. 29, 2016 file photo, shows a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

conflicts

Eric Hananoki - Media Matters
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Modern-day Pinkertons

Antonia Juhasz
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2016, file photo, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry smiles as he leaves Trump Tower in New York. President-elect Donald Trump selected Perry to be secretary of energy. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) (AP)

Stephen Braun
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Alli Joseph
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Demonstrators chant and hold up signs as they protest the Dakota Access Pipeline (Getty/Jim Watson)

A clash of 2 cultures

Jim Hightower
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Dakota Access pipeline battle

Jim Hightower
Members of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota participate in a rally to protect water and land from the Dakota Access Pipeline, August 24, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Alex Wong)

Protests against pipeline

Alli Joseph
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