Our History Is the FutureIn 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non Native allies from around the world. Its slogan Mni WiconiWater is Lifewas about more than just a pipeline. Water Protectors knew this battle for Native