A person walks a horse past the Oceti Sakowin camp in a snow storm during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Nov. 28, 2016 A person walks a horse past the Oceti Sakowin camp in a snow storm during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. On the scene as Native Americans protest construction of a pipeline in North DakotaOn the scene as Native Americans protest construction of a pipeline in North DakotaBISMARCK, N.D. — Government orders for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gathered for months to oppose the $3.8 billion project. During a news conference Saturday at the camp, protest organizers said they will not leave or stop their acts of civil disobedience. North Dakota’s notoriously brutal winters may help empty the camp of protesters, many of them who are from out of state, Kirchmeier said.

Source: Washington Post November 29, 2016 00:14 UTC