Native Americans protesting against the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) on Saturday accused law enforcement officers of cruel and inhumane treatment in jail, but said mass arrests and violent confrontations with police would not deter them from fighting construction of the oil project... 

In tears, Caro Gonzales, a member of the Chemehuevi tribe who was one of the first arrested, said police temporarily detained her and three other women in a large cage that she described as a “dog kennel”. “We were all crying in pain, saying we needed medical attention,” said Gonzales...

Leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux say the pipeline, a project of the Texas-based corporation Energy Transfer Partners, threatens the water supply and cultural heritage and would destroy sacred lands...

A sheriff spokesman, Rob Keller, told the Guardian in an email Sunday that “temporary holding cells made of chain link fences” are only used during mass arrests, and said that medical and nurse staff address inmates’ needs.