“The reality is, I am looking at hundreds of tents and people living there peacefully,” Hacker said in a phone interview from the site Thursday. “At the center of camp is a sacred fire where they are (protesting) by prayer.”
In contrast, Hacker said across the Cannonball River, authorities have barricaded a road to block protesters from the pipeline site, and have installed floodlights along the river to spot anyone trying to cross over from the main camp. He said surveillance helicopters regularly fly over the camp.
…Hacker said the clergy members, who represent 20 faiths, ceremonially burned a copy of a 1452 papal order allowing Europeans to take land from people deemed non-Christian savages.
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