Some Highlights from the Red Road to D.C. - Part 2

On July 22, the totem pole reached the banks of the Missouri River, or Mni Sosa. Grassroots activists within the Oceti Sakowin (a.k.a. the Great Sioux Nation, the tribal confederacy that includes the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota) are pushing forward a movement to recognize the sovereignty of Mni Sosa-part of a larger movement to grant legal rights to nature.