The history of the relationship between the indigenous people of this country and the European powers that be continues to this day at Standing Rock.
Members of the Sioux Nation in Standing Rock, North Dakota, reported being attacked with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in subfreezing temperatures as they protested an oil pipeline that threatens to contaminate their water and disrupt their sacred sites.
Protesters there were dealt severe head and limb wounds, eye trauma, internal bleeding and hypothermia from being doused with water in 22-degree weather.
They, among others, are fighting for their rights and freedoms and are being rewarded with grave injury and criminalization and marginalization.
