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Native Americans are divided over pipeline The Sac and Fox Nation has expressed concerns over the route of the Keystone XL pipeline route. Some Native American tribes in Oklahoma are in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline, while others are expressing concerns about the pipeline's impact on Indian lands.
July 30, 2012
Kaylon Wood, 15, waits for a tribal ceremony to begin as he takes part in the Sac and Fox Nation powwow in Stroud, Okla.
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July 30, 2012
Members of the Sac and Fox Nation color guard raise their flags at the opening ceremony of the tribe’s 49th annual powwow in Stroud, Okla.
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July 30, 2012
Audience members watch tribal dances at the ceremony opening the 49th annual Sac and Fox Nation powwow.
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July 30, 2012
Henry Hunter, 51, waits for a tribal ceremony to begin takes part in the Sac and Fox Nation powwow.
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Young dancers in Indian dress wait for a tribal ceremony to begin as they were taking part in the Sac and Fox Nation powwow.
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Children watch those taking part in a kid's rodeo at the Pow Wow held as part of the Sac and Fox Nation annual event.
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July 30, 2012
The entrance to Cushing, Okla., announces that it's the "Pipeline Crossroads of the World." The area around Cushing also has several different Native American tribes.
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July 30, 2012
Nate Enness is a driller who lives near the huge number of oil storage tanks that surround Cushing, Okla. He makes a good living and feels that the Keystone XL pipeline should be completed.
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July 30, 2012
Although there's lots of oil-related infrastructure surrounding Cushing, Okla., the downtown area has many shuttered storefronts. This mannequin is of a Native American woman is in the window of a downtown shop.
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July 30, 2012
More of the downtown Cushing, Okla.
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July 30, 2012
There are hundreds of oil storage tanks surrounding Cushing, Okla. One can even see them in the background at the cemetery where the remains of the family of famed Sac and Fox athlete Jim Thorpe rests.
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July 30, 2012
Storage tanks even are located near rural homes near Cushing, Okla.
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July 30, 2012
Area manager Keith Mossman walks the catwalk at the TransCanada pumping station in Marland, Okla., which is one of the newer stations for the Keystone pipeline. Oil comes here from Steel City, Neb., and then is sent down to the end of the line in Port Arthur, Tex.
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July 30, 2012
Janice Rowe-Kurak is tribal chairman of the Iowa Tribe. She has no objections to TransCanada's pipeline plan. She standing on the porch of a century-old family farmhouse in Perkins, Okla., looking off to a tribal cemetery.
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July 30, 2012
The text on this unusual mural at the Osage Nation Museum, in Pawshuka, Okla., reads: "This mural commemorates Osage One, the site where the first barrel of oil was produced and sold by the Osage People themselves, Oct. 23. 1996. Also, the seven oil men represent all independent producers whose efforts and fortunes have risen and fallen and risen again with the Osages." The mural is testament to the fact that oil companies and Indian tribes in Oklahoma have a history of cooperation.
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July 30, 2012
While some tribes in Oklahoma are good with the Keystone XL project and others are not, in South Dakota, TransCanada avoided the issue by simply going around the Rosebud Reservation. So though the reservation has casinos as a source of income, it does not benefit from the Keystone because the pipeline company found if too difficult to reach an agreement there.
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July 30, 2012
From Standing Bear Park in Ponca City, Okla., one can see the lights of the ConocoPhillips refinery only about 100 yards away.
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July 30, 2012
In Ponca City, Okla., there is a statue of Standing Bear, who was chief of the Ponca tribe.
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