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A new front in the battle against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is opening up for tribes and others in South Dakota in a rural area near Mission.

A group sanctioned by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe is setting up a prayer camp near Mission to keep up pressure against the pipeline. The camp will be located off of U.S. Highway 183 near the town of Ideal.

Aldo Seoane, project coordinator for the Shielding the People Project, said the tribe has concerns about trouble from pipeline workers and the tribe's sovereign rights being violated by the project.

"Rosebud wasn't consulted in the process of getting the pipeline put through," said Seoane.

Seoane said part of where the pipeline's path cuts through an area that contains historical and cultural tribal artifacts.

While TransCanada says that the Keystone XL pipeline doesn’t cross any reservation or tribal trust lands, the pipeline would cross through the original reservation territory granted in the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which included all of South Dakota west of the Missouri River.