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New wave of anti-protest laws may infringe on religious freedoms for Indigenous people

  • Written by Rosalyn R. LaPier, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana
imageMore than 30 U.S. states have passed laws intended to stop protests like the one against the Line 3 pipeline.Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

Over four days in June 2021, thousands of protesters attended the Treaty People Gathering in opposition to Line 3, a crude oil pipeline slated to be built across traditional homelands of the Ojibwe peoples in...

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