How to Stop a Black Snake - The New York Times
Louise Erdrich: "I hope we look back at the images — the blurred
features behind the riot-gear-clad men looming over a praying woman, the
costumes of intimidation, the armored
Humvees confronting young people on horseback, and see how close we came
to losing the republic. But we didn’t. We woke up. We understood that
the people who had persevered through everything, including Wounded
Knee, knew how easily the world could end. So they were fighting for the
water of life, for everyone."
