Dear Friends: On Sunday, December 18, 2016, this report on my brief visit to Standing Rock will be featured in the Tallahassee Democrat. I’ll be sharing Part 2 of what I learned at Standing Rock after the holidays. During the first week of December, I traveled with my niece Erin Canter to a snowy, stinging cold North Dakota prairie south of Bismarck, where encampments at Standing Rock have evolved into the longest running protest in modern history. In … Continue
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Dear Friends: I write to share with you my request for personal protection during my trip to Standing Rock, tomorrow through Sunday, Dec. 5. Perhaps that is the only way to have the people protecting the River, be protected themselves. Why doesn’t our President Obama answer the cries of the people being so violated in North Dakota. This is what I’ve written to Senator Bill Nelson, and Congresswoman Gwen Graham, both of whom I know and respect. I hope you … Continue
Dear Friends and Family: To support native rights, and on behalf of the rivers, I am going to Standing Rock, South Dakota for a week, with Erin Josephine Canter. We will join with Deena Metzger and others. Deena writes: “in the past, when a people were gravely threatened, Chiefs, Medicine People, Healers, Shamans, and Elders, called Councils. …People gathered in times of crises; we are gathering now.” We go because what is happening on the banks of the Missouri River … Continue