Archambault: 'I never did tell the governor I lost control' of protest camp

BISMARCK — Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II denies saying that he lost control of the camp where thousands of Dakota Access Pipeline opponents are staying in south-central North Dakota, as Gov. Jack Dalrymple suggested in a radio interview Tuesday.

Dalrymple told KFYR radio host Scott Hennen that among the pipeline protesters is a group of about 200 people who "are into a more militant form of agitation" and "provide 100 percent of the problems that we deal with."

Authorities have arrested 123 people — including 27 on Monday — since protest activities began Aug. 10 about 35 miles southeast of Mandan, near where the four-state pipeline will cross the Missouri River at Lake Oahe less than a mile north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The charges have included criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, engaging in a riot and, for some who have attached themselves to construction equipment, felony reckless endangerment.

"So would you ask Chairman Archambault, or have you asked Chairman Archambault, to ask these people to leave?" Hennen asked the governor.

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