How YOU Can Stop A Pipeline (ft. Winona LaDuke)

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Grades9, 10, 11, 12Civics

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Provided by Our Changing Climate

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What it is

This video from Our Changing Climate features climate activist Winona LaDuke and her efforts to stop Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota and its destruction to the native land and waterways.
Students will learn how they can get involved and take action in this fight.

Teaching tips

Positives

The video features an Indigenous climate activist and has a clear call to action.
The description links to several options to take action and further inform oneself about the Line 3 pipeline.

Prerequisites

The video mentions sex trafficking and missing or murdered Indigenous women at the beginning of the video.
Students should understand how cracked and leaking pipelines can impact entire ecosystems.
There may be an ad before the video.

Differentiation & Implementation

Civics courses can utilize power mapping exercises to better understand the stakeholders, incentive structures, and action steps for engaged citizens.
ELA courses can use the Stop Line 3 letter linked below the video as an example of persuasive writing.
After watching the video, which was published in 2022, students can research online to find an update on the progress of the movement to stop the pipeline.
A resource that discusses a successful pipeline protest is Do Climate Protests Actually Work? Three Examples When They Did.

From the scientist review

The resource is suitable for environmental justice advocacy. It explores the need for energy companies, big polluters, and the government to clean up pipeline leakages on wetlands and on indigenous people's land, which have polluted and degraded the ecosystem. This resource is insightful and recommended for teaching.

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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Subjects: Civics
Format: YouTube Video
Language: English
Location: North America, North America > United States > Minnesota, North America > United States > Wisconsin
Provider: Our Changing Climate
Authors: Our Changing Climate
Published: April 27, 2021
Last updated: July 16, 2026
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Standards alignment · D2.Civ.1.9-12 + 10 more

Core

Core Standards legacy

D2.Civ.1.9-12D2.Civ.1.9-12 Distinguish the powers and responsibilities of local, state, tribal, national, and international civic and political institutions.
D2.Civ.10.9-12D2.Civ.10.9-12 Analyze the impact and the appropriate roles of personal interests and perspectives on the application of civic virtues, democratic principles, constitutional rights, and human rights.
D2.Civ.14.9-12D2.Civ.14.9-12 Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rights.
D4.7.9-12D4.7.9-12 Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.3CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.3 Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.2CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.2 Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.
1.12.31.12.3 Analyze how environment and personal health are interrelated.

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Connecticut Climate Education Hub Standards legacy

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.3CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.3 Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any fallacious reasoning or exaggerated or distorted evidence.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.2CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.2 Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.
MW.Civ.14.a.MW.Civ.14.a. Analyze means of protecting or limiting human rights in the 20th century (e.g., Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations Resolution 181, Partition of India, Dirty War in Argentina, Cultural Revolution in China, Khmer Rouge, Stolen Generations in Australia).
CG.Civ.1.a.CG.Civ.1.a. Distinguish between the functions of local, state, tribal, and national governments in response to challenges (e.g., court decisions, executive orders, legislation, sovereignty, states’ rights).

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