As the dead line for Storm-troopers to move into Camp Oceti Sakowin approached, water protectors set ceremonial fires in the soon to be abandoned site.
“As police prepare to raid Oceti Sakowin Camp on Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m., the water protectors clear out what remains of the former front lines of the struggle, demolishing some structures and burning others ceremoniously to commemorate the camp and its former inhabitants.
Other camps have been established in the past few months, with new sacred fires lit farther from police lines. The tribal government has asked protesters to leave while they try legal measures to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline; the water protectors still at the camps stand resolute.”
The photos are eerily reminiscent of ones taken after the Battle of Wounded Knee...thankfully, so far, sans the bodies.
