In Solidarity with Standing Rock #NODAPL

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Protect sacred sites, protect Indigenous lands and water

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Relatives, the time has come for the unity of my tribal nations. The time has arrived for many of us Indigenous in the 21st century to unite and support each other. Whether we are Apache, Umatilla, Seneca, Seminole, Yurok, Metis, Navajo or Pueblo... - We all must all be there for each other.

The time is here for us to kick apathy to the curb and, stand up and support the brothers and sisters at the Standing Rock Dakota Sioux community -for they exist at the Sacred Stone encampment in North Dakota as children of the Earth, descendants of great warrior people, men and women who fought to protect the land.

For a couple of days last week, American national news has covered some of the activity at Sacred Stone encampment, and they have reported on the situation of the installment of the Dakota Access Pipeline, but in my opinion not enough. As the government (who is back by the leading corporate banks) has decided to put an oil pipeline through a portion of Indigenous Sioux lands, the water that runs as the Missouri river is in limbo. The fact that an oil pipe would be put near a life-giving source is stupid. Corporate entities do not are about human health or safety, for they in their actions have disrespected the Indigenous tribal sovereignty of the Standing Rock Dakota Sioux people and furthermore the entire community of human and animal life who utilize the waters of the Missouri river.

Today many Indigenous brothers and sisters, children and elders and also non-Native Indigenous people have gathered at the Sacred Stone camp in ND. They are there not at "protestors" as the national media has labeled them - they are there as PROTECTORS of the people and the land and of the sacred sites and burial sites. The Indigenous people are simply standing up for their ancestral lands to ensure the waters are not polluted by the installment and implementation of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Please, please do your research on this 21st century injustice. WE the Indigenous people love our lands, WE (many of us) hold the land sacred in our lives and WE protect our lands from evil people with bad intentions, who in the end create and perpetuate bad situations.

I as a Dine' / Hopi woman, as an desert person, as a modern Indigenous artist fully support my brothers and sisters at Standing Rock at the Sacred Stone camp. Though I cannot be physically present there, I send my prayers for protection and strength of my Indigenous.

BLESS EACH OTHER.