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Mile-marker post
2016-17
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota
Indigenous people and their allies from around the globe joined the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to protest a pipeline built without adequately consulting the Native Nation most affected. The protesters, who call themselves water protectors, established three camps near the pipeline's planned crossing of the Missouri River. To show how far some had traveled, they created this mile-marker post. It stood in the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) camp, the largest of the three. In January 2017, protestors endured blizzards and temperatures that fell to forty degrees below zero. |