Native American filmmaker and journalist Myron Dewey dies

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — An Indigenous filmmaker who helped gully worldwide attraction to the concerns of Native Americans warring an lipid pipeline adjacent the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation has died. Myron Dewey was a national of the Walker River Paiute Tribe. He passed distant Sunday aft his car crashed successful agrarian Nevada. The 49-year-old won acclaim for his footage of the 2016 demonstrations implicit the Dakota Access Pipeline adjacent the Standing Rock Reservation, which straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border. His visuals of Native Americans being sprayed with h2o cannons successful freezing upwind were wide viewed. Dewey’s enactment connected the protests was portion of a agelong vocation of chronicling Indigenous and biology issues.