Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline: Native American Perspectives: News and Articles

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This archive is an attempt to gather as much valuable information as possible from the ever-scrolling timelines of facebook (and elsewhere) that has been pouring out from North Dakota's Standing Rock Water Protector camps. There is great wisdom being shared by people taking a stand for a sustainable future for the generations to come.

Although this movement is about stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline and access to clean water for millions of people, to quote the following article, "This moment is, first and foremost, about Native liberation, self determination and Native survival." Subjects are organized so that links from facebook, and elsewhere, can be easily found. We hope you find it useful. May I recommend the interviews page as a place to start? Listen to the words of the people and see for yourself.

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All work featured on this site is generated by writer, social justice organizer and movement photographer Kelly Hayes. Kelly is a direct action trainer and a cofounder of The Chicago Light Brigade and the direct action collective Lifted Voices. She is community relations associate and a contributing writer at Truthout and her photography is featured in the “Freedom and Resistance” exhibit of the DuSable Museum of African American History.