How North Dakota’s native protest against oil pipeline became an American movement

A tribe’s efforts to halt construction of a North Dakota oil pipeline have swelled dramatically, bringing the support of movie stars and social media – and making a major oil company blink.

On Friday, a judge rules on the Standing Rock Sioux’s challenge to federal regulators, and North Dakota’s governor has called in the National Guard in case last weekend’s clashes between construction workers and protesters return.

Here’s how we got to this point…

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