Good friends – people I knew and respected – were pulled away from the fire on top of Last Child Hill... All told some 70 people went to jail for something they believed in with all of their hearts.
Judge Ann Donnelly of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn granted a request from the ACLU to stay deportations of those detained on entry to the United States, the Chicago Tribune reports.
In the first week of his presidency, Donald J. Trump released a memorandum to expedite the permitting process of Dakota Access. Standing Rock has become a uniquely potent leverage point against the policies of the Trump Administration. Offshoots are popping…
We need real solutions because our lives and quality of life is at stake. We must act now and speak truth to power by working to eliminate the cognitive dissonance that promotes superiority in any race, gender, or ethnicity. We…
If you’ve read any memoirs of people’s time at Standing Rock, you’ve most likely concluded that it was a very special place to be a part of. I spent around four days there myself, and identifying as a middle-class to…
I went to Cannonball, North Dakota, for almost a week through the Thanksgiving holiday and the plain truth is this: Standing Rock overwhelmed me. I have never in my life been involved in any Native protest spaces, in spite of…
As I write, I’m using my hand warmers to soften pieces of chocolate and keep my cell phone battery from succumbing to the freezing temperatures. A Baefeng FM transceiver periodically crackles on the dedicated medical and media channels, telling me…