At Standing Rock in N.D., a camp of defiance and prayer

Cannon Ball, N.D. – Late on Thanksgiving morning, as a mass of dark clouds gathered over the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, young Lakota men on horseback galloped through a sprawling encampment that has become the site of a monthslong standoff over the 1,172-mile Dakota Access oil pipeline that runs from North Dakota to Illinois.

Weaving around smoldering campfires and tepees still covered with beads of frost, the men cried, “All women and children report to the dome! There has been confirmation of a raid!”

Within moments, a line of more than 200 women and children could be seen marching toward a large geodesic dome near the center of this encampment near the Cannonball and Missouri rivers. Once they arrived, a Lakota elder addressed the crowd. “If any one of you is afraid right now, then go home!” she said. “Leave.” Not a single woman left. Even mothers swaddling infants stayed.

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