LaDuke: Fight against pipeline requires warm clothes and lawyers Shoving a pipeline through the heart of Ojibwe wild rice territory is a low blow at any count. Written By: Winona LaDuke | × Protesters, including one hanging from the top of a wooden tripod, protest Enbridge Energy's Line 3 pipeline by blocking access to the pipe storage yard outside of Backus on Monday, Dec. 28. Travis Grimler / Forum News Service It is 2 degrees out and I am facing a line of policemen. Today we are in Backus, Minn. Usually, the arrests and police are in Palisade, Minn., that’s just “down pipe.” Some 22 Minnesotans, ranging from 18 to 65, were arrested in Palisade the week before. Both towns have fewer than 250 residents and there’s about 1,400 pipeliners who have descended upon the area, like an occupation. Most are from Texas and Utah.