Hello, friends.

First, a reminder that November is Native American Heritage Month. Here's how the United States "honors" its first peoples.

This essay will be a conglomeration of links and info from the last week or so, since I've been away. Thank you to those who posted on NoDAPL in my absence. Let's start with a quote and image from LaDonna BraveBull Allard, one of the leaders, which puts the presidential election into some perspective.

The #NoDAPL water protectors in North Dakota are right now being pepper sprayed and shot with rubber bullets while trying to protect sacred sites (including at least two graves) and prevent drilling underneath a body of water. Some say it's a creek, others are calling it a lake.