After months of protests, the Army Corps of Engineers on Friday gave an ultimatum to the "water protectors" camping near the Cannonball River in North Dakota to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.
John W. Henderson, a district commander with the Corps, sent a letter to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe on Friday telling them that they had until Dec. 5 to leave the area:
Henderson said that the Corps will set up a "free speech zone" in another area nearby.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Chairman, Dave Archambault II, responded with a statement of his own, saying that the Tribe is "deeply disappointed," but not enumerating a response: