Man’s Best Fiend
European power in the New World was established with the help of aggressive and intimidating dogs, specially bred for the purpose. And, as Tyler D. Parry reveals, the long history of canine violence against minority groups is still being written.
Indigenous peoples gathered at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers, near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, on September 3rd, 2016 to protest against the threat that the Dakota Access Pipeline posed to the area’s water source. If the pipeline leaks, it will poison the water supply on which thousands of people depend.
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