Images of the burning Standing Rock encampment--set aflame by protesters themselves in anticipation of the final police eviction on February 22--opened a new chapter in the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the struggle for indigenous land and sovereignty. As tribal elders, Water Protectors and the #NoDAPL movement assess the lessons and victories of Standing Rock, new arenas of struggle proliferate in the courts, in the movement for divestment, and in the streets of cities across the United States.

Please join us for a discussion with Standing Rock elder and activist Cheryl Angel (Sicangu/Oohenumpa), and activists/scholars Jaskiran Dhillon and Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria) about where the movement stands and what lies ahead.

Cheryl Angel is a Lakota woman, Sicangu/Oohenumpa from South Dakota, and a frontline water protector at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, where she supported Sacred Stone Camp starting in April 2016. While there, she worked to integrate deep prayer with nonviolent direct action, guiding two women-led actions in resistance to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Cheryl recently traveled to Mexico to participate in the Caravan for Peace and Life, a movement seeking to raise awareness for the care of the Earth and its watersheds.

Jaskiran Dhillon is a first generation academic and advocate who grew up on Treaty Six Cree Territory in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Cultural Anthropology, Truthout, Public Seminar, Feminist Formations, and Decolonization among other venues. Jaskiran is an Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Anthropology at The New School in New York City and a member of the New York City Stands with Standing Rock Collective.

Elizabeth Ellis is a historian of early American and Native America. She is also a citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma and an activist. Her work focuses on Native appropriation and representation, gender-based violence on reservations, the tribal recognition process, and the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the McNeil Center for early American Studies and will begin full time in the history department at NYU in the fall.

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