Alaskans on front lines of Standing Rock protest

A group of Alaska Native women helping with the Standing Rock Sioux protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, are providing an inside perspective on the dispute that’s getting worldwide attention.
The cell service is patchy at Standing Rock unless you walk up a hill that overlooks the Oceti Sakowin camp. Everyone at the camp calls it Facebook hill. Water protectors walk up the hill hoping for cell service to make phone calls, send text messages, and for the lucky few, to check their Facebook