2026 marks the 10th anniversary of the Standing Rock Movement (NODAPL), an Indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. ⁣ ⁣ In late 2015, word began spreading about Dakota Access, a 1,172 mile oil pipeline which would pass through lands considered unceded territory under an 1868 treaty, lands they consider sacred, and eventually under the Missouri River just north of the Standing Rock reservation. Seventeen million people downstream, including the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River tribes, rely on water from the river. A group of Indigenous youth runners held a prayer run to deliver a message rejecting the pipeline to the Army Corps’ regional office in Omaha, informing tribal communities along the way. The youth then continued onward, eventually running all the way to the ACoE headquarters in Washington DC.⁣ ⁣ In April 2016, a group of Lakota established Sacred Stone prayer camp on the edge of the Cannonball River. What began as a small resistance eventually grew to a number ...