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Chief Arvol Looking Horse: A call for continued efforts to protect our water and our Earth

the Dakota Access Pipeline threatens public health and welfare on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe relies on the waters of the life-giving Missouri River for our continued existence, and the Dakota Access Pipeline poses a serious risk to Mni Sose and to the very survival of our Tribe.” Standing Rock Sioux Tribe resolution opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline

At the Standing Rock protest, water is life.

This week, thousands of Native Americans, from more than a hundred tribes, have camped out on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, which straddles the border between the Dakotas, along the Missouri River. What began as a slow trickle of people a month ago is now an increasingly angry flood. They're there to protest plans for a proposed oil pipeline that they say would contaminate the reservation's water; in fact, they're calling themselves protectors, not protesters.

More than a century ago, Frank Bennett Fiske had a photography studio at Fort Yates, a US Army post in the middle of a North Dakota Indian reservation. His rarely seen photos of Native Americans offer a fascinating glimpse of a bygone era.

After tensions escalated at the site of Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, demonstrators were heartened by the sudden appearance of a buffalo herd.

“I knew this was going to be a poignant experience to be a part of, but I had no clue how powerful it would actually be.”

Indigenous peoples are calling on groups and individuals to divest.

To the broader church: As Christians, we, the undersigned clergy, are conditioned by the gospel to stand on the side of the persecuted and the jailed. As

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