Taking a Stand: Protecting Water and Native American Sacred and Cultural Resources at Standing Rock

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The House Committee on Natural Resources-Democrats is holding a forum titled Taking a Stand: Protecting Water and Native American Sacred and Cultural Sites at Standing Rock. The forum will examine the Federal trust responsibility to tribes, tribal sovereignty, and treaty obligations; the moral and legal obligations to protect sacred sites and Native American cultural resources; and access to safe drinking water on Standing Rock tribal land and environmental justice.