standing rock sioux tribal historian ladonna brave bull allard.e'll be back in a minute. ♪ amy: this is democracy now, democracynow.org the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. today we're looking at the ongoing standoff at standing rock in north dakota, where thousands of native american water defenders are resisting the construction of the dakota access pipeline, over concerns a pipeline leak could contaminate the missouri river, which provides water for millions of people. their resistance has been met by increasing repression by hundreds of police officers from north dakota and surrounding states, as well as by unlicenseds pipeline security guards, who unleashed dogs and pepper spray against native american protectors on september 3rd. well, democracy now!'s exclusive video report of that attack went viral, was viewed over 14 million times on facebook, and was broadcast by major outlets, including msnbc, nbc, cbs, npr, cnn, the huffington post and others. five days after democracy now! released this on-the-ground report, morton county issued