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Caged In Cushing: Native Americans Protesting Obama’s Keystone XL Support Will Be Put In A Cage | “Native Americans gathering in Cushing, OK for a planned Thursday protest of President Obama’s anticipated words of praise for the Keystone XL pipeline will be forced by local authorities to hold their event in a cage erected in Memorial Park,” Climate Connections reports. “President Obama is an adopted member of the Crow Tribe, so his fast-tracking a project that will desecrate known sacred sites and artifacts is a real betrayal and disappointment for his Native relatives everywhere,” said Marty Cobenais of the Indigenous Environmental Network. “Tar sands is devastating First Nations communities in Canada already and now they want to bring that environmental, health, and social devastation to US tribes.” Rosemary Crawford, Project Manager of the Center for Energy Matters, added: “We can’t stop global warming with more fossil fuel pipelines.”