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A community forum, "Who are the Water Protectors?" focusing upon the viewpoint of organized opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Bismarck Public Library, 515 Fifth St.

Speakers will include Dr. Sarah Jumping Eagle, a pediatrician from Fort Yates; Chad Charlie, of Ahousaht First Nation in British Columbia; Fr. John Floberg, of St. James Episcopal Church in Cannon Ball; Lewis Grassrope, of the Oceti Sakowin Leadership Council, Lower Brule, S.D.; and Floris White Bull, of Standing Rock.

"This is a chance for the public to get to see who they are, what they are doing and why they are doing it," said Tara Houska, national campaign director of Honor the Earth, a Native American-led environmental nonprofit based out of the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.

Houska, who maintains that protecting the water in the Missouri River is an issue for all people, will counter what she calls false reports about paid protesters.

"These are regular people," said Houska, of the moms and dads, teachers, doctors and lawyers who have an interest in keeping the Missouri River safe as a water source.