#standing rock

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I will NEVER FORGET the Palestinian delegation showing up to Standing Rock. NEVER. THEY SHOWED THE FUCK UP EVEN FROM A WORLD AWAY.

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Roy Elk

They stood on horseback facing armored vehicles and riot police not because they wanted conflict, but because they believed water matters more than profit.

At Standing Rock, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and thousands of Indigenous water protectors gathered to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Missouri River, raising concerns about water safety, treaty rights, and sacred land.

Their message was simple:

“Water is Life.”

Elders prayed.

Young people rode horseback across the plains.

Families camped through harsh winters.

Tribes from across North America came together in solidarity.

Whether people agreed with every part of the protest or not, the movement sparked a global conversation about Indigenous rights, environmental protection, and who gets heard when land and water are at risk.

Years later, the images still remain powerful:

Lines of militarized vehicles facing unarmed riders.

Communities standing together to protect what they believed future generations would need most.

The Standing Rock movement became one of the most recognized Indigenous-led protests in modern history, reminding the world that clean water, sacred land, and cultural survival are deeply connected for many Native nations.

Because long after headlines fade, water will still matter to every generation that follows.

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[thoughtportal]

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month.

Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention

The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last wee

[victusinveritas]

Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.

“No matter how it was collected, where it was collected, when it was collected, our language belongs to us," said Ray Taken Alive, a Lakota

Really glad I didn't take a job with The Language Conservancy (this would have been before all this shit came out about them too) when there was a spot open. I know a few folks who worked with them a bit in the past, and they all agreed that they were better when they started, and then got greedy--their White Man's Burden of Oh We'll Catalog It All For You and then Charge You for Access model is vile.

[shamandrummer]

Hello, I am doing a project for school and would love to know if there are any current petitions or donation sites for the Sioux people and the Standing Rock protest? I can only find ones that were made 4 years ago

Thank you for your question. Dedicated to reversing the slow genocide of the Lakota People and destruction of their culture, the Lakota People's Law Project partners with Native communities to protect sacred lands, safeguard human rights, promote sustainability, reunite indigenous families, and much more. For over a decade, they've been standing strong with the Lakota to counteract treaty violations, protect sovereignty, and confront systemic racism. They're helping to safeguard sacred lands and water, end the epidemic of children being removed from their families and traditions, and amplify Native voices. To learn more visit https://action.lakotalaw.org/

[probablyasocialecologist]

FBI sent several informants to Standing Rock protests, court documents show

Until now, only one other federal informant was known to be in the camps.

Up to 10 informants managed by the FBI were embedded in anti-pipeline resistance camps near the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation at the height of mass protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in 2016. The new details about federal law enforcement surveillance of an Indigenous environmental movement were released as part of a legal fight between North Dakota and the federal government over who should pay for policing the pipeline fight. Until now, the existence of only one other federal informant in the camps had been confirmed.  The FBI also regularly sent agents wearing civilian clothing into the camps, one former agent told Grist in an interview. 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.  The operations were part of a wider surveillance strategy that included drones, social media monitoring, and radio eavesdropping by an array of state, local, and federal agencies, according to attorneys’ interviews with law enforcement.