Joel Maurer, 40, from Willits, Calif., bought the materials from Lowe’s to build and donate this “tiny winter bunk house” complete with two bunks, a loft and wood stove, to house water protectors for the winter months.
Category Archives: Protests
Women Walk In Prayer
Barbed Wire
As per the United States Flag Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, “§ 8(a)The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.”
Global Synchronized Prayer and Meditation with Standing Rock
Uqualla from the Habasuppai tribe in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, speaks to those gathered across the river from Turtle Island prior to the silent prayer on Saturday, November 26, 2016, as part of a global meditation with people participating in more than 400 locations.
November 26, 2016 – Tara Tippett, 39, offers tobacco to the Cannonball River for “for their healing and ours because they’re intertwined.”
Turtle Island
Crossing to Turtle Island
While many Americans prepared their Thanksgiving dinner, on Thursday, November 24, 2016, water protectors from all over the country and world marched to Cannonball River, where they held prayer, built a bridge, and crossed the river to Turtle Island.
Water protectors sang at the base of sacred burial site Turtle Island, while armed police stood atop it. Prayer was held in peace.