'Bad River' documentary follows tribe's fight to save Great Lakes from oil pipeline
CBS â Hundreds of miles north of Chicago, through Lake Michigan and onto the shores of Lake Superior, resides the largest Chippewa reservation in Wisconsin. The Bad River Band of the Bad River Reservation has been fighting for decades to save the Great Lakes from a potential oil pipeline rupture.
The court ordered Enbridge to stop operating on the reservation by June 2026 and to pay over $5 million for trespassing on the reservation for over nine years. Both sides are currently appealing.The documentary is not just about the pipeline, but the pipeline is symbolic of the oppressive and racist systems they have been fighting since the reservation's establishment in 1854. 'The Bad River people are warriors.
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