Sacred Stone Camp: Defend the Sacred

This is a collective action that reflects the truest intent of this movement and struggle, the necessity to protect and defend the sacred. 

As Oceti Sakowin people, our relationship to the land and water is the foundation of our identity. 
Dakota Access literally plowed through a burial site and a significant ceremonial site that was JUST identified by the landowner and tribal members. This was off-reservation. They plowed it before a state agency could come to the site and do a survey, with which the agency (SHPO) could trigger a work stoppage thru the site.

Understand this, we will stop this pipeline. But the struggle to protect the land, water and our communities is more than just the physical, it's also a spiritual struggle. That is why we chose to take this moment yesterday to have prayer for the land and ancestors that were disturbed.

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Sacred Stone Camp

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