Local Natives collect supplies for pipeline protesters

The two women stood on the banks of Blackbird Creek near Macy and prayed for the swollen Missouri River downstream.

A mother and daughter praying for their people, the Omaha Tribe, whose homes had been flooded.

And as they presented offerings of food and tobacco to the spirits, Alice and Renee Sans Souci heard their ancestors singing to them from the trees around them.

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