July 6th, 2015 at 3:26PM
They were saying, ‘Oh yeah, North Dakota is the fucking best; in North Dakota you can take whatever pretty little Indian girl that you like and you can do whatever you want and police don’t give a fuck about it.’ To hear something like that—he was literally talking about kidnapping and raping girls in public at three in the afternoon—that is how bad it is. That is when it really sunk in that this is the nightmare landscape we are living in—when men can talk openly about raping women and there are no consequences. It’s like I’m not safe here; my sisters are not safe here. —

me, quoted in The Human Cost of Keystone XL 

Honored to share some of my experiences and thoughts on violence against our Northern Plains indigenous sisters. The reporter asked me if I thought, even in the nightmare landscape we live in, that things would get better; these are the words I choose to stick by: “I am a firm believer in the strength of our nations and our people. We Cheyenne have a saying that a nation is not defeated until the hearts of our women are on the ground…and our hearts are not nearly close enough to the ground for this to be over yet.”

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