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Standing Rock Indian Reservation, United States - Early last month, more than 2,000 veterans gathered at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota in a show of solidarity with protesters camped there, who opposed the proposed Dakota Access pipeline. The veterans were drawn by pictures and video of fire hoses, police dogs, and rubber bullets being used against protesters.

For many people following the story, these images evoked ones from the civil rights movement in the 1960s; but for some activists and Native residents of the Dakotas, this comparison is all too real.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/nodapl-standing-rock-deep-north-170109063857178.html

Canada's Indigenous call for national suicide strategy

Two girls committed suicide in Ontario after Ottawa turned down local request for funding to stop youth 'suicide pact'.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/canada-indigenous-call-national-suicide-strategy-170119183341534.html

Leonard Peltier Officially Denied Clemency by Obama

The U.S. Office of the Pardon Attorney announced Wednesday night that President Barack Obama has denied clemency to imprisoned Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison for more than 40 years on charges that have been proven false.
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/httpwww.telesurtv.netenglishnewsLeonard-Peltier-Officially-Denied-Clemency-by-Obama-20170118-0070.html-20170118-0079.html