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<p style="text-align:left;">As you may know, almost 50 years
ago, I co-founded Women of All Red Nations (WARN) with fellow
LPLP organizer Phyllis Young and several others. We formed a
frontline to confront the issues we face as Indigenous women.
At the time, uranium mining in the southern Black Hills of
South Dakota was poisoning my people’s water and, in turn,
poisoning our wombs. Our coalition mobilized to stop this
assault on our reproductive health, and we successfully
prevented a mining corporation from further contaminating our
life-giving water.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Now, most of us are grandmothers and
great-grandmothers. But we’ve assembled once again against an
imminent threat to our water: the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline.
Last week, TC Energy reported to a Montana federal court that
it intends to begin pre-construction activities in South
Dakota next month.</p>
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<span style="display:inline-block;
margin-left:2em;margin-right:2em;font-size:smaller;">Linda
Two Bulls of Women of All Red Nations (WARN) rides again to
protect water, women, and girls from KXL and its man camps.
The video was produced by Warrior Women Project Community
Media, an ongoing source of community-based news through the
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<p style="text-align:left;">KXL doesn’t only threaten our water,
it also threatens our women and girls. Along with the
transport of toxic chemicals and machinery, oil pipelines
bring man camps to our lands. These temporary housing sites
near our reservations have proven time and again to exacerbate
the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Big
Extraction moves in to violate the earth, and in turn, our
women and children pay the price.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a
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moz-do-not-send="true">Now #WARNRidesAgain to protect our
water and women</a>. In December, a group of matriarchs from
across the <em>Oceti Sakowin</em> performed a symbolic
horseback border patrol along the southeastern boundary of the
Cheyenne River Reservation, sending a message to KXL and its
man camps: you are not welcome on our homelands.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">A Cheyenne proverb tells us, “A
nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on
the ground.” That’s why, as we ready our defense against KXL’s
encroachment, we’re rising up to protect our women and girls.
The violence against <em>Unci Maka</em> is violence against
us, too, and it is our birthright to expel it from our lands.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a
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moz-do-not-send="true">You can join the movement to
#FollowTheMatriarchs by sharing this Warrior Women Project
Facebook video of our ride to protect the sovereign border
of Cheyenne River</a> and by riding with us through the
coming months. Saddle up — it’s time to protect. </p>
<p>In solidarity,</p>
<p>Madonna Thunder Hawk<br>
Tribal Liaison<br>
The Lakota People's Law Project</p>
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