The victory, which any right-minded person would hope holds, of the Standing Rock tribe over the corporations building the Dakota Access Pipeline is something to cheer in these bleak days for the U.S. Let's hope that it leads to scrapping the project altogether, since there's no way to realize it without crossing the Missouri River somewhere.
Can't help remembering how our mother, who had plenty else to think about keeping a household with four kids together, abidingly and nearly silently lent support throughout her life to the Sioux Nation. She knew that the people white conquerers, ravenous commerce & Capital had shafted the most were the Native people. Her donations were perhaps not much, but they were tokens of her consciousness of that fact. We miss you, Mom.
Can't help remembering how our mother, who had plenty else to think about keeping a household with four kids together, abidingly and nearly silently lent support throughout her life to the Sioux Nation. She knew that the people white conquerers, ravenous commerce & Capital had shafted the most were the Native people. Her donations were perhaps not much, but they were tokens of her consciousness of that fact. We miss you, Mom.
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