Tag: Fort Berthold
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Fighting for Clean Air in North Dakota
Joletta Bird Bear and Fort Berthold POWER Still Have a Long Way to Go to Get Clean Air on the Reservation. Flares danced all the way out to the horizon in every direction among the rolling hills of North Dakota’s Fort Berthold Reservation. The six closest flares were clumped only a few hundred feet away,…
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Oil and Gas Development’s Impact on Fort Berthold
My name is Thomas Abe and I live on Fort Berthold and am an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes. I am an instructor at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College. For the past eight years prior I taught chemistry, human anatomy and physiology, and environmental science mostly. Where I live is in the epicenter of what is…
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Losing Community to Oil and Gas Development
“My name is Marilynn Hudson, and I live right here in Parshall, North Dakota. I’m 79 years old now. The oil development started…how many years has it been now? 2008, I think. So, we’ve been in it for about 8 years. And there’s been a tremendous change here.” “The Mandaree area of the Fort…
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Witnessing the Oil and Gas Industry Turn the Fort Berthold Reservation Into “an Industrial Zone”
“My name is Lisa DeVille, and I am an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. I’ve lived my whole life in Mandaree, which is on the Fort Berthold Reservation. Over the past ten years, I’ve watched oil and gas turn our reservation into an industrial zone…it’s totally changed our way of life.”…