MNI Wiconi. Honoring the Water Protectors

Water Protectors Praying at the Police Line, Nov. 20, 2016

Running From Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Water Cannons, etc. Nov. 20, 2016

Indigenous Women Leading Frontline Action to a location where the Dakota Access Pipeline was being buried in the ground. When the police asked them to turn around and leave with their approximately 200 supporters, they agreed to do so only if the police would join them in a prayer for the water. Once the police agreed, prayed with the group, and drank some sacred water, the Water Protectors peacefully returned to camp.

Non-Native Allies Circling Native Water Protectors to Protect them from arrest during a street action that stopped traffic outside the Federal Building in Bismarck, ND, where camp leaders and legal defense representatives were attempting to learn the status of arrested Water Protectors.