Racist mascots. Fossil fuel extraction. Murdered and missing indigenous women. Native runners highlight the high cost of continuing colonial domination in the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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How Standing Rock Stole My Despair
And what the indigenous resistance in North Dakota means for Texas and a world wrapped in pipelines. At the Oceti Sakowin Camp, just outside the Standing Rock Native American Reservation in North Dakota, the sun seems to rise in the west. Thanks to the north’s low-slung winter sun, there’s never […]
Reconciliation at the Heart of Standing Rock
The message of Standing Rock has been broadcast to the world through the majority of media dispatches as one of contention and struggle, of privatized security forces doing battle with water protectors who refused to submit to state force. And it’s been critical for those images to get out so […]