Through a Woman's Lens Honorable Mention
Standing Rock
Photographer: Amber Bracken
Through a Woman's Lens Honorable Mention
Exhibit Title: Standing Rock
Location: United States
Standing Rock, North Dakota, September 2016-February 2017
For over ten months, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and their allies camped in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing their land and water. The estimated $3.78 bill project is nearly complete, crossing almost 1,172 miles. The resistance stalled development at the Missouri River but was overturned by a Trump executive order just days into his presidency.
Although on it's face, the issue is the pipeline, the conflict runs much deeper and is steeped in generations of violent history. The Nakota, Dakota, Lakota (Sioux) are the people of the Battle of Little Big Horn and of Wounded Knee, who were driven to starvation by the loss of the buffalo and were robbed of their sacred Black Hills. In military vehicles and body armour, police have been true to this legacy, indiscriminately using tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, percussion grenades and water canons.
This work seeks to reflect the broader ongoing history of colonization that led to this newest injustice.
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