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Pipeline. Other organizations also encouraged community members to divest from TD Bank to "standing in solidarity." Sapiel also traveled several times to North Dakota to join the protests, and spoke to the press from Standing Rock in February
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Indigenous Peoples Day. She attended a forum with Orono, Maine, councilors to express the opinion of the Penobscot people in regard to the name change. Orono town councilors voted 6-0 in favor of changing the name in the town. In March 2019 the Maine House voted to change Columbus Day to
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