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Published: Friday, March 12, 2021
Jaime Pinkham. Photo credit: Oregon State University
Jaime Pinkham. Oregon State University
Four years ago, Jaime Pinkham, a member of the Pacific Northwest s Nez Perce Tribe, wrote that President Obama s halting of the contentious Dakota Access pipeline was a victory for tribes in what has been a long and tragic history with the federal government.
Now, Pinkham is poised to become a top political appointee within the Biden administration, where he could determine the fate of many consequential energy and water projects, including the 1,172-mile-long oil pipeline.
The decision on Sunday handed a victory to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters, but the protest and standoff at the Sioux Reservation should never have happened, Pinkham co-wrote in 2016 in an op-ed in the ....

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