Sacred Stone Camp

In August 2016, having traveled from her home in Ashland, Oregon, to the Sacred Stone Camp on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation borderlands, she felt overwhelmed by the energy of the movement. Blackowl is Sicangu Lakota and Ihanktonwan Dakota, with origins and ancestral ties in the Dakotas, but ...

The Sacred Stone Camp was established as a place of prayer by LaDonna Brave Bull Allard in April 2016. Then a 500-mile run organized by young people let the Army Corps of Engineers know that Natives did not want the Dakota Access oil pipeline constructed across their lands and water. When that ...

In April 2016, after receiving concerns about the construction of an oil pipeline, I was invited to Sacred Stone Camp at the northeastern border of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to assist with a water ceremony. At that time, not many were there, but it was enough to create a prayer to wake up ...

“Living on the reservation, sometimes we get into this idea that we are powerless,” said Allard, who founded the Sacred Stone Camp, the first Dakota Access opposition camp. “From this last year, I learned that we have the power to change ourselves, we have the power to pray, we have the power to stand ...

An aerial view, taken on Feb. 13, shows the Sacred Stones camp on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation and along the Cannonball River. TOM STROMME, TRIBUNE · Facebook · Twitter · Email; Print; Save. The original pipeline protest camp on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation closed ...

People staying at the Sacred Stone camp were served a final notice of trespass on Monday by BIA officers. According to a first notice, the property is majority-owned in trust for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has not authorized the protesters to live there. Darling said the land is also subject to another ...

In recent days, many in the Sacred Stone Camp have moved their yurts and dwellings to higher ground in the same lot. Some protesters living at the Oceti Sakowin camp also are moving to Sacred Stone, because the Oceti Sakowin camp is under an evacuation order by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

Reports came in today (February 2) at noon from Lakota historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard via Facebook that authorities—including the Bureau of Indian Affairs and members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Council—had entered Sacred Stone Camp, which she founded on her property. “We have been ...

“I just returned from the Sacred Stone camp and it was one of the most powerful events of my life. I am a non-native white man from Connecticut with a backpack full of camera gear and a drone to document the event. I had no idea of how or if I would be welcomed by the Tribal members. Let me tell you, from ...

The Camp of the Sacred Stone is full of all manner of people — kids, elders, lawyers, laid-back hippies, and representatives of several Native American tribes — all gathered alongside the Standing Rock Sioux Nation to resist construction of a controversial oil pipeline that would cut across the American ...