I'm not sure why I keep coming back - it's breaking my heart," she said. Now we clean it up, trying to salvage what we can. "Now we're left with all these things that people wanted to contribute. She said it's been hard, thinking of a disposable society, of all that had been left behind, when not long ago resources donated from all around the world were being allocated so people could survive winter.
Shelbie Dodt, of Detroit, was working to clear a camp she'd set up earlier, methodically shoveling snow to get to the ground tarps that had once kept ground moisture out of a light summer tent. The conditions are making it difficult to get to the camp goods stuck under hardened snow drifts of snow and ice. Water and ice is already starting to collect in the lowest areas of the camp and navigating around is tricky by vehicle and treacherous by foot. He said the camp will eventually be commemorated and the unity and historic gathering of hundreds of tribal nations remembered in a prayerful ceremony. The reality is we inspired the world that together we could stand up to a powerful corporation," Tilsen said. This was like a stone cast in the pond with a ripple effect all throughout the world. "I don't think the narrative is that this ended up in a trash dump.
The two groups each had about 25 workers, some volunteers, some part of the community service corps, and are using donations and other funds to hire the contractors and the equipment. Now we're putting our values into action to be good stewards," Tilsen said. "We had a stake in this from the first, supporting the water. Nick Tilsen, Thunder Valley executive director, said he'd been involved with the NoDAPL movement since day one. and its Standing Rock counterpart, though the tribe itself will take the lead going forward. This was about dreaming and building off of that the reality is the world can be beautiful," he said.Ĭleanup this week is being coordinated through the Thunder Valley Community Development Corp. "In a certain aspect, I do feel sad, but there is always an end and there is always a beginning. With that in mind, he said the tribe asked the the corps, which owns the land, and state agencies that offered help, to stand down while the tribe works its way through a difficult process.īradley was not immune to the emotion of the day. He estimates that by the end of February, the area will be 95 percent cleared off. He said the idea is to move carefully and thoughtfully through the camp, where some 300 are still living, cooking and going about their days. "We're trying to identify what should be cleaned up by asking people and getting their perspective on where we should start," Bradley said. Hans Bradley, the brownfield coordinator for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, is overseeing this initial phase of the cleanup that will last through Friday, when the teams will regroup and assess. It all got poured into piles and dumpsters arranged around the camp perimeters and trucked to the landfill. Materials for salvage were set to the side, while loaders scraped up bucket loads of abandoned tents, sleeping bags, cooking utensils, food goods, and personal items mixed into slushy snow and ice. Oblivious to political undercurrents but hoping to clear the land for potential flooding, people and big machines tore out camps and structures, concentrating on abandoned sites or where people say they want help. Army Corps of Engineers has been directed by Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer to issue the final easement so Dakota Access can drill its pipeline under the Missouri River and Lake Oahe. News had not yet reached the camp that the U.S. Tuesday, loaders, dump trucks, an excavator and skid-steers and workers moved around the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation where as many as 10,000 protesters had been living since August to protect the Missouri River water and the tribe's sacred sites from a 570,000-barrel crude oil pipeline a half mile away. Clearing the anti-Dakota Access protest camp - the largest protest camp ever occupied in the country - is starting with baby steps this week.
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