My friend and photographer extraordinaire Lou Dematteis went to Nebraska to document the heartland's artistic resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline.

Two days ago, on Saturday, April 12th, he snapped this image of Art and Helen Tanderup's farm located on the proposed pipeline route that crosses the Ponca Trail of Tears outside Neligh, Nebraska.

The 80-acre artwork — the latest protest environmentalists and landowners have employed against TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline — was created by the farmers, ranchers and Native American tribes of the Cowboy and Indian Alliance in collaboration with artist John Quigley.

Opponents carve anti-pipeline message into field

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