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Indigenous tribes across the nation continue to resist the now nearly completed Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) project, despite a U.S. federal judge denying the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe’s request for emergency injunction on March 14.

Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote, “The court acknowledges that the tribe is likely to suffer irreparable harm to its members’ religious exercise if oil is introduced into the pipeline, but Dakota Access would also be substantially harmed by an injunction, given the financial and logistical injuries that would ensue.”

Following an executive order President Donald Trump issued during his first month in office, the path has been cleared for the $3.8 billion pipeline, which stretches from the Dakotas to Illinois.

More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered in San Francisco on March 10 in support of the Native Nations March on Washington, where thousands of demonstrators and indigenous tribes marched outside the White House to demand that the president meet with tribal leaders.

Dressed in indigenous attire, demonstrators marched from the Federal Building to City Hall waving signs and chanting “Water is life.” Outside City Hall a projection of #NODAPL displayed on the front of the building.

Many of the demonstrators, who call themselves “water protectors,” had returned from Standing Rock in North Dakota.

Lakota tribal member Galeson Eagle Star, who stayed at the largest camp at Standing Rock, Oceti Sakowin, returned to the Bay Area in January after months of being on the front lines until the government closed the camp on Feb. 22.

“We’ve experienced a great deal of resistance and terrorism,” Eagle Star said.

“The fight is not over,” Native American activist Kris Longoria said. “We must continue to resist we must continue to bring Native issues.”