Bismarck, North Dakota - Sept 9, 2016
Catcher Cuts The Rope, an Army veteran injured in Fallujah, leads a two-mile walk from the Standing Rock camp to participate in a ceremony at a sacred burial ground two miles away. Cuts The Road is Aoanii and Nakota.
In a historic gathering of more than a hundred Native American tribes from across North America, protestors are rallying to stop the pipeline they fear will poison the Missouri River, which runs through the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.
CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times
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