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Monday, January 2, 2017

January 2, 2017 By Antonia Gonzales

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Exhibit explores significance of horses among Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people Alaska Native veteran travels to Standing Rock to show support to demonstrators

Monday, December 26, 2016

December 26, 2016 By Antonia Gonzales

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A Yup’ik woman shares her experience at Standing Rock Some young Lakota poets dispel stereotypes about poetry

Friday, December 23, 2016

December 23, 2016 By Art Hughes

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Montana tribal leaders are optimistic about the choice for Interior secretary The camps at Standing Rock prepare for a festive weekend and a blizzard A world premiere of a popular animated movie—and it’s on an all-Indigenous network

‘Water protectors’ ponder choices facing winter and a request to stand down

December 10, 2016 By Art Hughes

The Oceti Sakowin Camp is in transition as extreme winter weather and requests by the Standing Rock Sioux chairman and others are prompting people to leave. Camp organizers closed the camp to new arrivals as another major blizzard approaches.
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Modern wigwam is a comfort against North Dakota winter

December 8, 2016 By Art Hughes

The sun was out and snow covered the ground in front of Pat Wabashaw’s structure she shares with her husband and four children at the Oceti Sakowin Camp. “It’s handmade with maple wood and iron wood. It’s covered in tarp and an insulated tarp on the top,” Wabashaw said. Pat, her husband and four boys […]

Celebration at Oceti Sakowin; Pipeline backers are undeterred

December 5, 2016 By Art Hughes

By Daysha Eaton and Antonia Gonzales The self-proclaimed ‘water protectors’ honked horns, hollered and sang on a highway near the Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota Sunday. The celebration came after hearing the news the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied a key easement to run the Dakota Access Pipeline under the Missouri River near the […]

Friday, December 2, 2016

December 2, 2016 By Art Hughes

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A judge rejects a restraining order request by a legal group representing people opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline construction Attorneys for people injured by police actions compare their fight to the 60s civil rights era The town of Barrow, Alaska officially has a new name

Thursday, December 1, 2016

December 1, 2016 By NNN

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Cherokee Nation files suit against federal government alleging decades of trust mismanagement 17 former Obama administration appointees urge president to take action on Dakota Access Pipeline North Dakota’s governor says law enforcement will not block supplies to Oceti Sakowin Camp

Standing Rock responds to Army Corps notice

November 28, 2016 By NNN

By Daysha Eaton A snowstorm blanketed the plains of North Dakota Monday bringing winter to the main camp for people demonstrating against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Army Corps of Engineers says the fast-approaching winter is one reason it issued an eviction notice to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Friday. In a letter, the […]