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Veterans and elders ignore eviction notice, arrive at #NoDAPL camp in North Dakota (video)

By Chris Stewart
APTN National News
December 2, 2016

As the Dec. 5 eviction date at the North Dakota camp trying to shut down construction of a pipeline, new groups of supporters have arrived on the scene.

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Standing Rock: A Change of Heart

December 2, 2016
By Charles Eisenstein
charleseisenstein.net

I am told by Native American friends active at Standing Rock that the elders are counseling the Water Protectors to undertake each action prayerfully and to stay off the warpath.

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...

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...

Dakota Access Pipeline 'akin to cultural genocide' - DAPL activist to RT (VIDEO)

November 29, 2016
RT.com

Linda Black Elk, who has treated Standing Rock protesters injured by law enforcement, describes the Dakota Access Pipeline as “cultural genocide” in an RT interview. Vowing not to give up the effort, she calls on President Barack Obama to stand with them.

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