Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations, stands onshore as the canoes from Native Nations of the Pacific Northwest arrive after paddling down the Missouri River. In an earlier statement, Chief Arvol Looking Horse said, “We fail to appreciate and honor our Sacred Sites, ripping out the minerals and gifts that lay underneath them as if Mother Earth were simply a resource, instead of the source of life itself."
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