Standing Rock Rising:
Inside the Movement to Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline
An excellent post by Vogue giving the history of the NoDAPL movement and it's current state-of-affairs with stunning visuals including videos ... highly recommended.
“Snow still covered the plains when the first tepees and tents were staked in the ground near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation by a confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers. It was April 1, 2016, a Friday. This small encampment would grow into an unprecedented gathering of native North American tribes and nations united in an effort to protect water and land ... a resistance movement rooted in nonviolence and community ...
The Dakota Access pipeline, funded by the Energy Transfer Partners corporation … would cut through grounds sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. It would travel twice underneath the Missouri River, which the Lakota and Dakota people of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation depend on for drinking water, along with 17 million other people throughout the country …”
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