Sep 1, 2026 · 50 min · 22 segments
The pipeline has been built, the protest camps disbanded, but the fight isn't over. As pipeline opponents set up a new camp in Iowa, the Tiger Swan propagandists follow them, this time with the help…
Darren EhretGuest
Chris TruittGuest
Lance SchaeferGuest
Sikowis NobissGuest
Heather PearsonGuest[gentle music] In early 2017, some of the water protectors from Standing Rock joined a new camp where they could gather and organize.
It was called Little Creek, and it was not far from the Dakota Access Pipeline's route in Iowa.
I thought it was gonna be more of an action-based place, but it, it, what it turned out to be was more of a healing place.
Sakawe Nobiss is a Plains Cree and Saulteaux citizen of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Some had made it through months of police and private security pressure before police evicted the camps in North Dakota at the end of February 2017.
The campers end up participating in some demonstrations, but they spend more time attempting to heal from what just happened.
You might expect that from the perspective of the Dakota Access Pipeline's parent company, Energy Transfer, that they have won.
But Energy Transfer and its contract private security firm TigerSwan are not done with these people.
I'm Aileen Brown for Drilled, and this is The Propagandist, the inside story of a narrative war between a pipeline company and an environmental movement.
[gentle music] In early 2017, some of the water protectors from Standing Rock joined a new camp where they could gather and organize.
It was called Little Creek, and it was not far from the Dakota Access Pipeline's route in Iowa.
I thought it was gonna be more of an action-based place, but it, it, what it turned out to be was more of a healing place.
Sakawe Nobiss is a Plains Cree and Saulteaux citizen of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Some had made it through months of police and private security pressure before police evicted the camps in North Dakota at the end of February 2017.
The campers end up participating in some demonstrations, but they spend more time attempting to heal from what just happened.
You might expect that from the perspective of the Dakota Access Pipeline's parent company, Energy Transfer, that they have won.
But Energy Transfer and its contract private security firm TigerSwan are not done with these people.
I'm Aileen Brown for Drilled, and this is The Propagandist, the inside story of a narrative war between a pipeline company and an environmental movement.
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