Chairman Archambault (left) and Chief Arvol Looking Horse. Credit: YES! Magazine/Jenni Monet, all rights reserved.
Attack dogs and waves of arrests by police in riot gear could look like isolated incidents of overreaction to the activism stemming from the Standing Rock reservation. But for the Lakota Sioux who live in these marginalized hillsides, the escalated militarization behind their battle against the Dakota Access pipeline is a situation decades in the making.
