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Standing with Standing Rock (Art (Music (“Standing Rock Stand N Rock” by…

- - - - 1868 Fort Laramie established the Great Sioux reservation
      - 1851 Fort Laramie established new boundaries for Native Americans
      - 1889 Congress splits up the reservation, forming multiple smaller reservations including Standing Rock
  - - - an ancient Lakota prophecy about a black snake that would slither across the land, desecrating the sacred sites and poisoning the water before destroying the Earth.
      - First thought to be the highways and other industrial/ artificial infrastructure that was threatening nature
      - The pipeline is a vivid representation of the serpent that would come and threaten homes, water, and lives
      - "There was a prophecy saying that there is a black snake above ground. And what do we see? We see black highways across the nation,"
        
        "There's also a prophecy that when that black snake goes underground, it's going to be devastating to the Earth."
        
        Dave Archambault, chairman of the reservation
- - - - At the more provocative end- Joel Waters' Death of Hydra- a fervent description of the steps corporations in America have taken to control the people they were intended to serve and a call to action to stop those corporations from taking away what little is left.
      - On the more serene but powerful side- Deborah A. Miranda's Prayer of Prayers- this poem is book-ended by vivid imagery of the beauty of nature, with the fundamental question of what it means to be a prayer at its core.