Tears of pride fall on my cheeks listening to the joyful voices of welcome.

and for our children onward...

Against the rapacious & destructive profiteering of Republican-values corporate exploiters.

Our front-line warriors willing to risk everything to save all our asses. Water trumps oil.

I will remember "Mni Wakan, water is sacred. Mni Wiconi, water is life."

Wado.

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http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2016/standing-rock-sioux-tribe-takes-action-to-protect-culture-and-environment-from-massive-crude-oil-pipeline


Wado

CANNON BALL – North Dakota’s homeland security director ordered the removal of state-owned trailers and water tanks from the Dakota Access Pipeline protest campsite Monday, citing mounting reports of unlawful activity -- the latest involving lasers -- and the risk of damage.

“Based on the scenario down there, we don’t believe that equipment is secure,” Homeland Security Division Director Greg Wilz said.

As tribal members from across the nation streamed into the campsite, swelling its population to between 500 to 4,000 people depending on estimates, the loss of their main drinking water supply came as a blow and sent local officials scrambling to find an alternative water source.

“I feel like I just got shot down,” said Johnelle Leingang, executive secretary to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II and the tribe’s emergency response coordinator. “It’s very hurtful.”

A black heavy-duty pickup backed up to the water tanks and pulled them away just before noon as the beating sun drove temperatures into the 80s.

Two air-conditioned trailers and a command center vehicle – delivered with the water tanks a week ago by the North Dakota Department of Health at the tribe’s request – also were hauled away from the campsite, which overlooks the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers just south of where the oil pipeline would cross the Missouri.

“People are getting overheated now already,” Leingang said shortly before 4 p.m., as the temperature hovered around 90.

Governor seeks fed help...

http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/state-pulls-relief-resources-from-swelling-dakota-access-pipeline-protest/article_8be06089-ab85-57e4-a8a4-fbe28143eefd.html

“Based on the scenario down there, we don’t believe that equipment is secure,” Homeland Security Division Director Greg Wilz said."

Just like in the Black Hills, and the campaign of the 1860-1870's starting in Nebraska going into Wyoming and Montana, when the "soldiers built forts-----------------to protect the "gold hunters" now its being employed in 2016 for oil.

Name one case / charge Mr. Wilz, that the Sovereign tribes have done damage at this sacred site and the property--------------prove it?

Just like the campaign of the 1840's and the dislodgement of Sovereignty Nation of the Cherokees (my heritage) and the genocide called the Trail of Tears based on -------------the taking of land

All in the name of Manifest Destiny and the Doctrine of Discovery


And now the lackey for the oil company the Governor is asking for fed help------------------its about the land and the water governor, its about the treaties

http://www.nativeamericancaucus.org/content/tribal-sovereignty-history-and-law