Desiree Kane
Prayer Walks to Sacred Grounds Camp
Initially, daily prayer walks at noon were to the location where the pipeline company originally tried to dig. They were greeted by prayer warriors and the Horse Nation, who came to the front lines to pray for the land being dug up.
Morton County Sheriff's officers started calling in officers from all over the region to come provide relief as they provided protection for the construction crews and began to outwardly show less care for the humans the pipeline threatened.
Both DAPL and the police began intense surveillance of Oceti Sakowin Camp. Around Labor Day, 8,000 people were present.
On Labor Day, September 5th, meer hours after the Tribe's lawyers filed evidence in federal court notifying Dakota Access that their proposed pipeline path crossed sacred burial sites, the company dug up the site. Their security firms attacked, maced and sicceed dogs on pregnant water protectors, children, elders, and others who had come to pray for ancestors whose grave sites the pipeline company had knowingly desecrated.
Daily prayer walks then began to go to the camp formed in the pathway, Sacred Grounds Camp. This place would later be called the 1851 Treaty Camp that was brutally cleared out, elders pulled out of ceremonial sweat in their undergarments, people maced, people and horses shot with rubber bullets. This location would also become the place Bridge 134 was held so that further brutalization would not occur.
yesmagazine.org/the-standing-rock-victory-you-didnt-hear-...
Prayer Walks to Sacred Grounds Camp
Initially, daily prayer walks at noon were to the location where the pipeline company originally tried to dig. They were greeted by prayer warriors and the Horse Nation, who came to the front lines to pray for the land being dug up.
Morton County Sheriff's officers started calling in officers from all over the region to come provide relief as they provided protection for the construction crews and began to outwardly show less care for the humans the pipeline threatened.
Both DAPL and the police began intense surveillance of Oceti Sakowin Camp. Around Labor Day, 8,000 people were present.
On Labor Day, September 5th, meer hours after the Tribe's lawyers filed evidence in federal court notifying Dakota Access that their proposed pipeline path crossed sacred burial sites, the company dug up the site. Their security firms attacked, maced and sicceed dogs on pregnant water protectors, children, elders, and others who had come to pray for ancestors whose grave sites the pipeline company had knowingly desecrated.
Daily prayer walks then began to go to the camp formed in the pathway, Sacred Grounds Camp. This place would later be called the 1851 Treaty Camp that was brutally cleared out, elders pulled out of ceremonial sweat in their undergarments, people maced, people and horses shot with rubber bullets. This location would also become the place Bridge 134 was held so that further brutalization would not occur.
yesmagazine.org/the-standing-rock-victory-you-didnt-hear-...