Wednesday, November 30, 2016 // The Statement
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Journalists look out from a hill overlooking the camp.
Water protectors — as those working to stop then pipeline prefer to be called —
hold signs and gather as they approach the police last Thursday.
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The road leading into the main standing Standing Rock camp, Oceti Sakowin Camp, is lined with flags of over 140 tribes.
On Thanksgiving, police stand on sacred burial grounds as
water protectors watch from below, asking them to leave.
Ryder Foster, 4, is a part of the Cherokee and Anishaabe tribes.
From Kalamazoo, MI, he came with his mother and sister.
A Lakota water song is shown on a piece of paper.
Instead of driving an hour home to be with my family for
Thanksgiving, I drove seventeen hours to document the
camps and people at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in
North Dakota, acting as water protectors in resistance of the
Dakota Access Pipeline. Though these photos could never
tell the full story, I hope they shed light into the incredible
people dedicating their time to fight for clean water and the
rights of indigenous people.
Two women join hands while discussing their time at the camp.