Police say she was one of 27 people arrested on charges of criminal trespass and engaging in a riot.
The Dakota Access pipeline project has drawn huge protests.
US actress Shailene Woodley has been arrested during a protest in North Dakota against a huge oil pipeline project that will cross four states.
ST. ANTHONY, North Dakota -- The Morton County Sheriff's Office celebrated Indigenous Peoples Day by terrorizing Native Americans who are protecting the water of the Missouri River, and ancestral burial places, and arresting them.
Actress Shailene Woodley and Lakota activist Vic Camp were among 27 people arrested at the work site of Dakota Access Pipeline. Two people were arrested and charged with felonies who were locked down to machinery.
Shailene Woodley was arrested while livestreaming, as the Morton County Sheriff continues to arrest the media and livestreamers. Police arrived in armored vehicles, wearing riot gear, with police dogs, as Native Americans erected tipi poles and began their prayer.
On Sunday, the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington denied an injunction to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which would have halted the pipeline.
President Obama has been silent as North Dakota police and sheriff's deputies violate all civil rights and human rights.
In Las Vegas, the Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues demanded a halt to the nuclear dumping in Indian country, from the uranium mines and strew radioactive tailings on the Navajo Nation and in the Pueblos, to the atomic bomb legacy of the Nuclear Test Site and Yucca Mountain radioactive dumping on Western Shoshone lands in Nevada.