{"id":464,"date":"2016-11-16T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/fall-2016-issue\/?p=464"},"modified":"2024-12-01T16:52:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:52:42","slug":"war-for-water-prayer-as-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.societyforritualarts.org\/coreopsis\/fall-2016-issue\/war-for-water-prayer-as-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"War for Water: Prayer as Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>By Tatyanna M. Wilkinson
\n<\/span>Egeria Consulting
\n<\/span>SRA Board of Directors<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"protectors\"In North Dakota and around the country, water protectors(not protestors) have waged prayer to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. This movement is known on social media as the #nodapl or #standingrock movement. \u00a0The protectors are using prayer as their weapon in this fight. <\/span><\/p>\n

From the Sacred Stone website: <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

On Friday, August 5, 2016, a group of Oceti Sakowin youth from different Dakota and Lakota nations arrived in Washington DC after running ~2000 miles by relay, in spiritual opposition to the pipeline. The runners delivered 140,000 petition signatures to the US Army Corps of Engineers and rallied at the White House to ask President Obama to pressure them to repeal the water crossing permits. Meanwhile, relatives back home set up a tipi and held demonstrations in front of North Dakota\u2019s State Capitol Building during a 3-day special legislative session. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Dakota Access pipeline is proposed to carry 450,000 barrels of fracked crude oil per day, from the Bakken fields of North Dakota, 1,172 miles to Patoka, Illinois. \u00a0Though originally planned to cross the Missouri River upstream of Bismarck, the crossing was relocated just upstream of the Standing Rock Reservation. The threats this pipeline poses to the environment, public health, and tribal and human rights are strikingly similar to those posed by the Keystone XL, but the project has seen a small fraction of the attention from media and major environmental groups.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Supporters have vowed to protect the water\/fight the pipeline throughout the harsh North Dakota winter. The main camps, Oceti Sakowin Camp, Sacred Stone and Rosebud are currently winterizing and striving to leave at small of a footprint on the land as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

This fight is for all of us. The water belongs to all of us. Our children and grandchildren cannot survive without it. Please stand with us as we protect our sacred lands. Water is life, <\/span>mni wiconi<\/span><\/i>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Powerful short film:<\/strong><\/p>\n