In 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe launched a battle against an oil pipeline running across their ancestral lands. Despite their efforts gaining international attention, the 1,172 mile-long Dakota Access Pipeline was built anyway. The tribe lost that battle—but its members didn’t let that defeat stop them from tackling the greater issue at hand: climate change.
Tribal members, alongside celebrities who joined the protests in 2016 like Mark Ruffalo (The Avengers) and Shailene Woodley (Big Lit