Greetings!

There is great celebration and mourning in our hearts as we write this. We celebrate the incredible journey we had with the Wild!ers to Standing Rock. On the ground, Wild! youth lent their support to chopping wood, building yurts, preparing meals and cleaning up in the kitchens, marching on the front lines, and aiding as medics.

For the youth, being at Standing Rock was living in a community that embodied everything they had learned about nonviolence, and deepened their understanding about power and privilege.

In addition to working alongside the youth, Play in the Wild! Animators assisted the Water Protectors' Legal team and joined the citizen press corps during actions. If you haven't already seen the videos that we produced, check out our reports on the Forgiveness Walk and the Human Medicine Wheel. We plan to produce at least one more video from the footage we shot, which we'll share when it's done.

We celebrate all the incredible contributors who made the journey with the youth possible so that we could deliver more needed supplies. The winter tent handmade in Quebec with attached woodstove will go to the school library at Oceti Sakowin Camp through a connection we made with Margot Kidder (that's right, Lois Lane!) who is acting as a librarian. Much needed supplies were also delivered to the medics, herbalists, and to various camp kitchens. Again, we brought nearly a thousand pounds of organic produce donated from local Vermont and Quebec farms.

We celebrate each person on this list for sending your prayers, thoughts,and care to Standing Rock. The incredible infusion of the principles of nonviolence into the daily life and all the actions taking place at Standing Rock is testimony to the culture and leadership of the Standing Rock Tribe. We are grateful for their guidance, honor their continued request for allyship, and respect the incredible way they are acting in protection of all our natural resources and their own inherent right to live on their ancestral lands.

We are mourning that the day after Thanksgiving (a U.S. holiday that was invented by Abraham Lincoln on a lie that the first Pilgrims sat together with Native Americans at a feast to celebrate their new friendship), the Army Corps of Engineers has issued notice to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to evict the Oceti Sakowin Camp by December 5th, where nearly 10,000 people are currently encamped. This is land seized by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1943 from the Standing Rock Sioux. 

Our continued prayer is that everyone can stand strong and that the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty will be honored, effectively stopping the pipeline's construction through Standing Rock land. Once that has been achieved, we hope that the cessation of the pipeline's progress will be an opportunity for the energy companies and the U.S. government to shift their focus to renewable energy sources.

If your heart calls you to prayer or to action we invite you to continue to Stand with Standing Rock with us.

Please stay informed and share news from Standing Rock as it unfolds over the coming weeks – things change very quickly there, and lives are on the line more than ever. Our friend Shodo Spring has compiled a list of reliable news sources, as well as other Standing Rock-related info here (scroll down to "Current News"). You can contribute financially directly to the legal fund here, which are used for ongoing litigation efforts. You can also contribute to Oceti Sakowin camp to continue to winterize here. Most importantly, continue to hold Standing Rock and the people there in your heart and in your prayers.

Thank you for walking with us.


Peace All Ways,
Catherine