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<h1 id="reader-title">Red Warrior Camp Leaves Oceti Sakowin</h1>
December 11, 2016 </div>
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<p><strong>Red Warrior Camp has left the Lands and Waters
of Oceti Sakowin.</strong></p>
<p>Grassroots leaders LaDonna Tamakawastewin Allard, and
Chase Iron Eyes from Standing Rock have also spoken and
have made it abundantly clear that they want those
equipped for the harsh North Dakota winter to stay and
help stop DAPL, due to our current circumstance it is
with great regret that we as Red Warrior cannot accept
this heartfelt invitation. That is not to say we do not
support this effort in fact is quite the opposite, we
send our Warrior Salute and War Cry to the universe and
the ancestors that their needs are met and they receive
the love and support they need in the fight for clean
water.</p>
<p>Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Chairman Dave Archambault
has made it abundantly clear that a diversity of tactics
in the battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline is not
respected nor wanted. We have this to say: without the
courage and the actions of those who actually put their
minds, bodies, and spirits in harms way the pipeline
would be built. Without the Warriors who locked down and
took measures to put a stop to the work on DAPL, the
black blood would already be flowing under the Missouri
river. The encampment itself would not even be here
right now. The hard work of the Warriors has cost ETP
millions, we have struck the Black Snake a deadly blow.</p>
<p>The peace policing that was led by people who were for
the most part self appointed used ceremony and
spirituality as a weapon against us, they too have made
it abundantly clear by their actions and their constant
slinging of arrows that they are not ready to embrace a
world view that upholds decolonization and revolution.</p>
<p>After months of active duty as Warriors fighting for
Sacred Water and protecting Sacred Ground, and due to
the current political climate here at Standing Rock, Red
Warrior Camp is evolving. We are taking time to recoup,
and expand on who we are as a Society. We have worked
very hard here for many months and must be mindful of
ourselves and our families and also to self care. We
must also be true to who we are and as Indigenous Land
Defenders, we are committed fully to our roles as
Warriors and have worked too hard to allow any kind of
outside threat to compromise our duties and movement.</p>
<p>Red Warrior Society is now dedicating ourselves to
building a culture and community of Resistance on every
level. We were called here by the People to help fight a
battle that is far from our home territories for many of
us, we have sacrificed much in the efforts for Mni
Wiconi. Facing felony charges, lasting bodily harm and
the long lasting effects of battle fatigue we have laid
it all on the line for the water. Our time here has come
to an end, we have done all we can in this fight and we
are honored to have stood beside not only the Tribe but
to each and every one of you from all nations all over
the planet who came here with the fire of resistance in
your bellies and fought hard and long beside us.</p>
<p>We offer up our sincerest thanks to all who have
bettered us as a Camp, we are grateful to those who have
made our lives here easier and who have sheltered us and
fed us. To all those who came forward and offered their
help in the form of finances and the sweat from their
bodies. We salute you, your help, love, and offerings
have given us the heart to be here for so many months,
and it has held us up when we were weary from battle and
felt discouraged. Without this we would not be in a
place to carry on our battle to other frontlines and we
would not be as strong as we are. There are no words in
this colonized language to express the deep feelings we
carry with us, for this movement that has arisen from
this historic time, water is life.</p>
<p>One of the lessons we have learned that has inspired us
is the very real need for a mobile resistance movement
that is ready and willing to dismantle the capitalist
regime that is destroying our planet. The mobilization
of resistance is key to shattering the oppressive
illegal military occupation of the so called
‘Amerikkkas’, for too long we have lived with broken
treaties, genocide, racism and colonization. In order to
best honor our ancestors and the future generations we
are living our principles by forming a Warrior Society
rooted in combatting the indoctrination of our minds,
bodies, and spirits. We do not need Standing Rock to
exist, but we did however require it to put us all in
the same place at the same time. We realize now that all
we need is each other, our Red Warrior family has
undertaken the responsibility and role to uphold not
only Mother Earth but Indigenous Rights. It is with this
duty in mind we must rise up and move on.</p>
<p>We are unapologetically Indigenous, we embody
resistance, everything we do from eating rubber bullets
for breakfast to holding our frontline has been done in
a manner that is nothing but spiritual. We have great
respect and love for prayer and ceremony and understand
its place in a time of battle, many of our People are
spiritual leaders in their own right and in their own
territories. We are the answered prayers of our
Ancestors embodied in the flesh, we are given a sacred
duty to ensure the continuity of our Peoples way of life
on this planet, and to protect the future for those
spirits yet to come. This is a call to action to which
no man or women can or should deny in these precarious
times.</p>
<p>The time has come for us as Red Warrior take a leap of
faith in our Ancestors and carve a space for ourselves
to exist as free from colonialism as we can. We
recognize and acknowledge our role, we have been brought
together by the struggle for clean water here at Oceti
Sakowin and we are moving on as a group.</p>
<p>Our time together here has been a journey and a
teaching experience for us all, it has honed our vision
and our mission as a whole and we are looking seven
generations forward. Focused on action to defend our
Mother we are moving forward to ensure we are where we
are needed and can be effective. Our people and our
battles are all over Turtle Island, we have worked hard
together to create a Warrior Society that is upholding
not only Mother Earth but also each other. We are Mother
Earths Army.</p>
<p>We cannot stay and fight a battle for land and water
that is heavily invested in neo-colonialism. We are so
grateful to the grassroots people who have supported us
while we have been here. It is not easy to say goodbye,
we are deeply tied to this struggle and are not
abandoning our post. This fight is not over yet, the
pipeline is still being built, Energy Transfer Partners
will push this pipe through unless there is a diversity
of tactics that include direct action and no court
ruling or legal manoeuvring will prevent that from
happening alone; and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is
heavily engaged in praying away a pipeline without
action, this is in direct opposition to who we are as
Warriors.</p>
<p>We are in a war to fight the greedy corporate whores
who are pimping out our Mother for blood money and we
say no more. Enough is enough, for over 500 years we
have been brutalized and robbed, we are not victims
looking for surcease we are Warriors fighting for our
lives and the future. We cannot afford to allow our own
corrupt leaders aid and abet this process, too many of
our people are working for industry, too many of our
people are selling out, we must remember the warrior
blood that runs through our veins. We do a great
disservice to ourselves and the People when we allow the
values of white supremacist society to overshadow the
knowledge of what it means to be a true human being.</p>
<p>Mother Earth is hurtin and she’s calling for backup.<br>
Warriors rise up. FIGHT BACK!</p>
<p>In The Spirit Of Resistance,<br>
Red Warrior Society</p>
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