From ENS-Episcopal and interfaith chaplains were about to raise a tent in the Oceti Sakowin Camp on Dec. 4 when a message runner approached and called them to join the crowd already gathering around the sacred fire in the camp’s center. They left the tent, poles inserted, on the ground, and they went.
As they joined the hundreds of people around the fire, Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II took to the microphone to announce that that federal government said it would not allow the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe, the drinking water source for some 8,000 people living on the Standing Rock Reservation, which covers 2.3 million acres in North and South Dakota.
“It’s significant for all of the people that supported us, standing with us,” said Archambault. “It’s huge. It’s big.”
He called on those present to take the lessons learned from the “Water is Life” movement home with them to heal their families and communities, and to create a better future.
More here-
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2016/12/05/water-protectors-supporters-rejoice-over-victory-for-native-americans/
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