The water protectors are moving all of us forward, and we must follow their lead. #noDAPL
["Although people often feel guilty about their ancestors killing all
those Indians years ago,” the twentieth century had in fact “seen a more
devious but hardly less successful war waged against Indian
communities.” Deloria was referring to a host of injustices: the lack of
funding for tribal education, which forced parents to send their
children to government-run boarding schools; the termination
of federal recognition for scores of tribes, which caused the loss of
services promised by treaty; and a disregard for the sovereignty of
tribes, manifest in the building of infrastructure on Indian land
without honest consultation or consent.
Today, as Dave Archambault II, the tribe’s chairman, suggested in an
editorial for the Times, that infrastructure is pipelines. “Tribes have
always paid the price for America’s prosperity,” he wrote.]
