New Mexico tribes write Trump on Dakota pipeline dispute

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Leaders of New Mexico’s 23 Native American nations and pueblos are expressing solidarity with opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline project in a letter to President Donald Trump.
Tribal governors signed the letter Friday in the central rotunda of the state Capitol in a ceremony attended by Standing Rock Sioux tribal council member Robert Taken Alive.
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe fear that an oil leak could contaminate its drinking water if plan