Chase Iron Eyes: Dakota Pipeline Construction ‘Amounts to an Ethnic Cleansing’

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VILLAFRANCA (voice-over): "The camp population is now in the hundreds, down from the estimated 10,000 only a few months ago with confrontations with police sometimes turned violent. They are protesting the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which will run deep below a section of the Missouri River. They say it threatens their drinking water and will disrupt sacred Native American sites."
CHASE IRON EYES: "We have asked for extensions and they were denied."
VILLAFRANCA (voice-over): "Chase Iron Eyes is an activist attorney who's been camped out near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation."
CHASE IRON EYES: "This is a forcible removal. It amounts to an ethnic cleansing. It's a place that native nations have the internationally recognized right to be."