Lawrence HatterLawrence Hatter: “Stop dismissing Standing Rock Sioux as dupes” was published in Grand Forks Herald December 30.   Hatter states: “Sinister forces are at work in North Dakota. At least that was the claim of the state’s former lieutenant governor, whose paranoid fears were right out of the eighteenth century.  Taking a leaf from a political playbook as old as the American Republic, then-Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley dismissed the Standing Rock Sioux opposition to the planned oil pipeline in that state as the work of ominous powers. ‘The Native Americans are being used, absolutely being used,’ Wrigley told reporters December 8, ‘by these outside agitators.'”  Read more in the online Grand Forks Herald.