On May 30, Michael “Little Feather” Giron was sentenced to thirty-six months in federal prison, becoming the first person to face serious prison time for his role in the struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Giron was one of thousands who gathered in camps on and near the Standing Rock Reservation in 2016 and 2017 to oppose the pipeline.
He will be credited for the fifteen months he has already spent incarcerated, and his legal team hopes he will be released to a halfway house in as little as eleven months.
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