Video: W.A.R.N. Ride
In December, a group of women from the Fours Bands of the Oceti Sakowin— the Minnicoujou, Itazipco, Siha Sapa, and Oohenumpa— made a symbolic horse ride on the western edge/border of the Cheyenne River Reservation where the TransCanada KXL Pipeline will construct temporary workforce housing, commonly known as a “man camp.”
The ride signifies a stand against the violence and human trafficking that will increase with the establishment of this "man camp" near the border of the reservation. The ride idea originated with some of the original members of Women of All Red Nations (W.A.R.N.), a Native women's activist group founded in 1978 to fight for and protect the lives of Native women, families, and the Earth.
The ultimate goal of the ride is to raise awareness and send a message—it’s time to wake up and be ready to protect the sovereign borders of the reservation nation and everyone vulnerable to the impact of the "man camps." While the building of the pipeline itself is a significant act of violence to the Earth, this violence also translates directly into human trafficking.
Resources & Important Developments
January 14, 2020 - TC Energy to resume work on Keystone XL in the United States as early as next month | Read More
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January 13, 2020 - Keystone XL work camps would bring hundreds to S.D. areas with few law enforcement officers | Read More
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January 9, 2020 - White House unveils plan for major projects to bypass environmental review. Plan would help Trump administration advance projects held up over global heating concerns such as the Keystone XL oil pipeline. | Read More
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December 25, 2019 - In Indian Country, a Crisis of Missing Women. And a New One When They’re Found | Read More
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December 21, 2019 - Man-camps are focus of ninth day of testimony to S.D. panel about Keystone XL water permits | Read More
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December 20, 2019 - Tribes win KXL order in Rosebud Sioux Tribe V. Trump | Read More
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December 20, 2019 - Oil booms, so does violence | Read More
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December 17, 2019 - “Nobody Saw Me” One Navajo girl’s experience shows how sex trafficking happens in America. | Read More
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December 11, 2019 - “Shame!” Indigenous Leaders & Delegates from Global South Stage Dramatic Protest at COP25 in Madrid | Read More
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December 3, 2019 - 10 Anti-Capitalist Indigenous Projects & People to Support | Read More
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November 1, 2019 - Keystone Pipeline leaks 383,000 gallons of oil into wetlands in second big spill over two years | Read More
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May 1, 2019 - An intervention presented to the UNPFII on the correlation between man-camps and increased violence to Indigenous peoples | Read More
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September 6, 2018 - #NotInvisible: Why are Native American women vanishing? | Read More
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August 29, 2018 - 26 activists cited in downtown Bemidji during oil pipeline protest | Read More
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June 18, 2018 - South Dakota’s “Riot-Boosting” Law Aims to Curb the Next Standing Rock Before it Even Starts | Read More
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April 20, 2018 - Efforts To Increase #MMIW Awareness Include A Film, Website, Law And Daily tweet | Read More
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Mapping Against Man Camps | Read More
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn Action at US Embassy in Madrid | Read More
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South Dakota Trafficking Stats | Read More
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Report: “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls” | Read More
A map prepared for the Native Sun News Today shows the proposed route of the Keystone XL Pipeline in South Dakota and the man-camp location in Harding County, as well as the proximity of abandoned uranium mines and sacred sites in the North Cave Hills of the Custer Gallatin National Forest. Map by Frank DiCaesare. Read more…
Dec 7, 2019 - Photo from a meeting of a Women’s Gathering on the Cheyenne River Reservation to discuss human trafficking and MMIW measures of defense against the incoming man camps.