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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.
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.

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.

Alternate Titles
  • from the MNI Wiconi, Honoring the Water Protectors portfolio
Artist (American, born 1957)
Date2016, printed 2021
ClassificationsPhotograph
MediumDigital inkjet print
DimensionsImage area: 18 1/2 x 27 5/8 in. (47 x 70.2 cm) Sheet: 24 x 31 3/16 in. (61 x 79.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Bill Press and Elana Auerbach
Object number2025.16.9
Copyright© John Willis
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