Human Rights Abuses Escalate at DAPL Prayer Services in North Dakota
Source: Huffington Post
“It makes me so sad. I want to feel like what we have been fighting for over the past hundred years is our dignity and that we as Indigenous people will be accorded full human rights. This is not the case in Morton County. The endless aggression, strip searching and attempts to humiliate our people are a continuation of 160 years of this. Morton County and North Dakota live in a colonial/military/pre- civil rights, old boy, paradigm. This is evidenced throughout North Dakota in the destruction of land and the desecration and oppression of native people and women. I pray for healing for my people and our land.” ~~Winona LaDuke
The photo Winona LaDuke references is stunning because of the brutality it conveys. A 19- year-old Arapaho girl is lying in the mud under a prayer tipi. She is not alone. A Morton County, North Dakota deputy is on top of her with one knee pressed against her neck and the other pushed into her lower back. The girl’s face is forced into the dirt by the weight of his body. He might outweigh her by a hundred pounds. You cannot see her face, in fact nothing except her flushed nose is visible. An officer from Marathon County, Wisconsin is crouched to the right, watching. Guns, radios, handcuffs, batons and other devices hidden from view in leather pouches hang from the belts of the deputy and the observing officer.
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He has the power to stop this BS and honor the Indigenous People of this Country and there rights.
This not some fucking states rights issue!
Why is a Wisconsin officer on and in that jurisdiction? He is comes from two states away, who deputized him to work in the state?
The Sheriff or the governor!
Where is Heitkamp?
Where is Hoeven?
Where is Cramer?
Do these four individuals not realize that they are dealing with a sovereign nation and human beings!!
This is just fucking outrageous
