At Standing Rock, women lead fight in face of Mace, arrests and strip searches

Native American women are leading the movement against the Dakota Access pipeline, but say they face cruel and inhumane treatment from police. Sitting inside a small tipi where she is camped out while protesting the Dakota Access pipeline, she took a drag of her cigarette and recounted how officers took her to a North Dakota jail last month where, she says, a group of male and female guards forcibly removed her clothes when she refused to strip in front of them. “I’m beyond traumatized,” the 33-year-old Native American woman said through tears.

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