These are photographs from October 2016 at Standing Rock when I came to join the Water Protectors. I wanted to share them in this venue so that people who wish to build upon them or use them for a syllabus are free to do so. With so many images being of police, pipeline and protectors, I hoped to provide images of what we are working to protect.

This is a photo of the Sacred Stone Camp, located on Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Reservation Land, next to the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball Rivers.

Copyright © Margaret A. Smith
Sacred Stone Camp © Margaret A. Smith

This is the Oceti Sakowin camp is about a mile from Sacred Stone camp and is on Federal land that is the Army Corp of Engineer land.

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This is the Missouri River, what we are working together to protect. We are Water Protectors!

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The Dakota Access Pipeline intends to run beneath the Missouri River, less than a mile from Standing Rock Reservation.

Should it leak, everything downstream of it will be contaminated.

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The Cannonball River is a tributary of the Missouri River.

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It is the sole water source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

 We are here to protect WATER! #NoDAPL