Bia

In 2023, digital video ad revenue rose 17% to $57 billion dollars compared with $18 billion for local TV stations, which have seen their take decline an inflation adjusted 36% since 2000, according to BIA Advisory Services.

But Abida is still known in Bhopal, where people refer to her by her nickname 'bia huzoor'.

Meanwhile, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or BIA, operated undercover narcotics officers out of the reservation’s Prairie Knights Casino, where many pipeline opponents rented rooms, according to one of the depositions.

Less widely known than the FBI’s undercover operations are those of the BIA, which serves as the primary police force on Standing Rock and other reservations.

During the NoDAPL movement, the BIA had “a couple” of narcotics officers operating undercover at the Prairie Knights Casino, according to the deposition of Darren Cruzan, a member of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma who was the director of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services at the time.