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2 tribal leaders resign from task force to protest pipeline [View all]
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Two tribal leaders have resigned from a Montana task force in protest of the state attorney general’s support of a proposed oil pipeline from Canada.
Montana Department of Justice spokesman John Barnes confirmed Wednesday Jestin Dupree of Fort Peck and Brandi King of Fort Belknap stepped down from the Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force.
State lawmakers created the 11-member task force to better report and find missing Native Americans, and they put the panel under Attorney General Tim Fox.
On Monday, Fox intervened in a lawsuit in support of constructing the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta’s tar sands.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/2764645f59a64c7eb4b29d34fb6c39e5
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