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.
Hundreds of women walk in silent prayer from Sacred Stone to the barricade on the bridge crossing Cannonball River on Sunday, November 27, 2016.
Six elders stood singing and praying with sage and cedar across barbed wire from armed security.
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.”
Water protectors crossed Cannonball River to sacred burial site, Turtle Island, on Thursday, November 24, 2016.
Water protectors cross self-made bridge to sacred burial site, Turtle Island, on November 24, 2016.
Crossing to Turtle Island on November 24, 2016.
Jumping Mouse, aka Georgie Lilgreen, age 50, of Tlingit descent, drove out from Stanwood, Wash. Jumping Mouse and another water protector pray at the base of Turtle Island on November 24, 2016.
Water protectors sing as armed police encroach around Turtle Island on November 24, 2016.
Praying at the base of Turtle Island on November 24, 2016.
Water protectors sing, “Water heal my body. Water heal my soul. When I go down down to the water, by the water I feel whole,” at the base of Turtle Island on November 24, 2016.
