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Water Protectors Deliver Donations to Morton County Officers

December 2, 2016
By Jade Begay
Indigenous Environment Network

MANAND, ND - On Friday December 2nd at approximately 2pm CST Water Protectors from Oceti Sakowin camp will fulfill a ...

Restoring Paradise One Watershed at a Time

December 2, 2016
Genesis Farm

Perhaps Paradise was never lost.  Earth can’t be lost.

She can be desecrated and abused.  She can be diminished severely in her beauty, health and creativity, yet still endure.

 

Prophets, poets and wise people from earlier times also mourned the loss of people, lands and things they loved.  They did their best to explain the...

Fake Cowboys and Real Indians

December 2, 2016
By Timothy Egan
New York Times

For most of this past week, a winter storm has lashed at the North Dakota prairie camp where the Standing Rock Sioux are making a stand to keep an oil pipeline away from water that is a source of life for them.

The sight of native people shivering in a blizzard, while government authorities threaten to starve them out or...

Pope Francis, the Interfaith Movement and Global Environmental Ethics

By Kusumita P. Pedersen

Interreligious Insight: A journal of dialogue and engagement

Vol. 14, no. 2 (December 2016): 62-73.

http://fore.yale.edu/files/Pedersen_Pope_Francis.pdf

The Priest in the Trees

Feral faith in the age of climate change

By Fred Bahnson
Harper’s Magazine
December 2016

Sioux anti-pipeline action sustained by Native American spirituality

November 29, 2016
By Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service
National Catholic Reporter

STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION, N.D. - In the Sioux creation narrative, water was one of the first beings the Creator made, and it became a major part of the people’s religious ceremonies.

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Veterans to Serve as 'Human Shields' for Dakota Pipeline Protesters

November 29, 2016
By Christopher Mele
New York Times

As many as 2,000 veterans planned to gather next week at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to serve as “human shields” for protesters who have for months clashed with the police over the construction of an oil pipeline, organizers said.

John Grim on Standing Rock: 'This is Not Only About Water, It's All About Water'

November 30, 2016
By Timothy Brown
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

In recent days, the conflict has escalated over construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. John Grim, a senior lecturer and research scholar at F&ES and an expert in Native American religions, discusses the historical, cultural, and spiritual significance of the Standing Rock...

North Dakota governor orders evacuation of Standing Rock protest site, but no forcible removals plan

November 28, 2016
By William Yardley
LA Times

North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple on Monday ordered a mandatory evacuation of protesters seeking to block construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, but both the state and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said they have no plans for “forcible removal” of the protesters.

The Corps of Engineers earlier had said that it planned...

The Many Ways to Help Standing Rock

Even if you can’t show up at the wintry encampments, you can join water protectors in other ways: from calling the North Dakota governor to breaking up with your bank.

By Sarah van Gelder
YES! Magazine
November 29, 2016

The timing couldn’t have been more awful.

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