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The Dakota Access Pipeline, abbreviated as DAPL, was a fixture in news reports for much of late 2016 as protesters blocked construction sites for a proposed oil pipeline that would potentially cut through land sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The protests have been studded with clashes and arrests. Police took 141 people into custody after a confrontation with demonstrators while clearing an encampment off private property near the Dakota Access Pipeline on 27 October 2016, the Washington Post reported. Among those taken into custody was Caddo Nation chairwoman Tamara Francis-Fourkiller, an expert on sacred burial grounds who was advising the Sioux of Standing Rock in negotiations with construction supervisors. On 29 October, family members of the tribal leader said an anonymous donor had stepped forward with $2.5 million dollars to pay bail for the release of Francis-Fourkiller and everyone else arrested earlier that week, according to News 9 of Oklahoma City. The same information was disseminated on the White Wolf Pack blog. Two days later, however, a nonprofit legal group involved in the proceedings issued a statement strongly denying that any such donation was made or received: A 30 October post on the Red Owl Legal Collective's Facebook page thanked donors to the Legal Defense Fund of the Sacred Stone Camps and the jail support team from the Red Warrior Camp for assistance securing the release of those arrested:
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