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'We must kill the black snake': Prophecy and prayer motivate Standing Rock movement
CBC News ^
| Dec 11, 2016
| By Karen Pauls
Posted on 12/11/2016 5:54:46 AM PST by jerod
Indigenous leaders say effort to oppose Dakota Access pipeline rooted in power of prayer
There is 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.
For many Indigenous people gathered near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, that snake has a name the Dakota Access pipeline.
"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," said Dave Archambault, chairman of the reservation, which straddles North and South Dakota. "There's also a prophecy that when that black snake goes underground, it's going to be devastating to the Earth."
That belief is why hundreds of people have gathered since April to pray in camps along the Missouri River.
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard started the first camp, Sacred Stone, on her family's land near the reservation
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy
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Like most CBC news stories, this one is mostly fake, conjured and made up.... The 'camps' created for this protest will likely create more pollution with the urine, defecation, and general refuse they discard while enjoying nature in their tents, than the pipeline ever will.
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posted on
12/11/2016 5:54:46 AM PST
by
jerod
To: jerod
Sounds like racism to me.
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posted on
12/11/2016 5:58:31 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: jerod
I refuse to believe this Indian mythology until it has been thoroughly vetted by Elizabeth Warren.
To: jerod
Obama and his protege will be history in a month. Relax Indians.
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:04:58 AM PST
by
ZULU
(We are freedom's safest place!!!! #BOYCOTT HAMILTON!!! #BOYCOTT NEW YORK CITY!!!!!!!)
To: Tijeras_Slim
lol. I thought the black snake was obama.
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:05:33 AM PST
by
dp0622
(IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Tijeras_Slim
I refuse to believe this Indian mythology until it has been thoroughly vetted by Elizabeth Warren.
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:08:42 AM PST
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Vaquero
And the bartender said.....”sorry this is not a closet, no queers allowed”
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:11:03 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
To: jerod
So the Lakota are racis’?
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:12:49 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: jerod
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:17:48 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: rktman
So I assume the Lakota will now *completely* refrain from using any and all forms of petroleum products, because ancient prophecy?
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:20:32 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I'm Your Pain...)
To: jerod
I would not walk through the camp. No telling how many parasites and diseases you would catch and pick up. i would not even ride through there in a D 8 Cat with am enclosed cab.
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:22:19 AM PST
by
sport
To: PghBaldy
If only Billy Jack were alive...
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:23:01 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I'm Your Pain...)
To: Salamander
"If only Billy Jack were alive..."
The message I took from that movie was that pacifism is great, if you can find an extremely violent person to defend you.
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:27:54 AM PST
by
Flag_This
(Liberals are locusts.)
To: Salamander
They say that they are dedicated, not stupid. They will continue to use oil products as needed. They will continue to “protest” and put Warren Buffet’s money in their pockets.
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:28:00 AM PST
by
sport
To: sport
"They say that they are dedicated, not stupid. They will continue to use oil products as needed." Ah, the Nimby Sioux...
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:30:09 AM PST
by
Flag_This
(Liberals are locusts.)
To: Flag_This
You’d need a really big hat to stuff all that hypocrisy into.
Oh...wait.
;)
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:30:32 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I'm Your Pain...)
To: Salamander
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:31:07 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: sport
There’s nothing quite like honor and principles.
/s
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:31:48 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I'm Your Pain...)
To: jerod
an ancient Lakota prophecy How ancient? Ancient enough that someone bothered to write it down before the era of underground oil pipelines? Otherwise I'm chalking this up as whole-cloth fabrication as reported by "fake news".
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:33:06 AM PST
by
GCC Catholic
(Make America Great Again!)
To: PghBaldy
Ironically, none of my snakes have ever done me harm.
Liberals, can’t say the same.
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posted on
12/11/2016 6:34:55 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I'm Your Pain...)
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