Stand With Standing Rock
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| Image from my project "Hearts on the Ground" |
Today was a historic moment and a step in the right direction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided not to grant the easement to cross Lake Oahe for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
"For centuries, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and tribes across the country, have faced fundamental injustice at the hands of the federal government - which time and again took our lands and tried to destroy our way of life. Our Treaties and our human rights were ignored, our interests in protecting lands and waters were considered unimportant, and our voices were not heard." - Dave Archambault, Chairman if Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
The fight does not stop here as President-Elect Donald Trump has shares in the company building the pipeline. We can expect to hear more about this in the days after his inauguration and the fight will have to continue.
It's been amazing to watch Indigenous people from across the country coming together, uniting, to fight the illegal incursion into the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Land- and succeeding! I'm hoping this is the dawn of a new era, where the strength of indigenous people is felt, and their voices heard as one force, to fight for the protection of their lands, the safety of their women and the respect of their cultural and spiritual ways.
#standwithstandingrock
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| Image from my project "Hearts on the Ground" |
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| Image from my project "Hearts on the Ground" |
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| Image from my project "Hearts on the Ground" |
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| Image from my project "Hearts on the Ground" |
