Live from Mni Wiconi NODAPL Reunion at Standing Rock

Live from Mni Wiconi NODAPL Reunion at Standing Rock

The broadcast ends today with a beautiful tribute to those who have passed to the Spirit World.

On YouTube: Day 2

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2DeLSmqWA

Now! Mni Wiconi NODAPL Ten Year Reunion: A Time for Healing, Prayer and a New Generation

Mni Wiconi NODAPL Ten Year Reunion: A Time for Healing, Prayer and a New Generation

By Water Protectors, Censored News, Today, September 18, 2026

PORCUPINE CREEK, Standing Rock Nation -- It is a time for celebration, a time for healing and prayer, and a time for a new generation. It is the Mni Wiconi NODAPL Ten Year Reunion. This morning Lakota Chief Arvol Looking Horse is leading a Ceremony with the Headsmen.

Wasté Win Young, Lakota organizer of the reunion, said, "Yesterday, I was gifted a painting from our planning committee and Ladonna’s necklace by her son, Freedom. I cried. I showed my mom. Then she cried. It was a beautiful day today. Genuine happiness. Loving relatives."

"So good to see fellow water protectors from near and far. This morning we are having a ceremony at the NODAPL camp site with Chief Arvol Looking Horse and the headsmen. Please join us. Thank you to everyone. I love you all so much," Waste said Friday morning.

NODAPL Reunion underway. Photo by Michelle Cook

Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine' attorney said, "Thankful! What a blessing. Hundred people fed today and more in the coming days. Thankful to those who made it and praying for those who could not or can’t."

"We are praying for all and praying for Creation."

"Sacred fire was lit after 10 years with the ashes and logs of the original fire. People unite after 10 years. Praying for healing for all those who need and want healing. May they find it those who seek it. Will always stand with my family here. Some stake down when the hard times come. This family who in my hard times held me up. No matter what comes we will continue to love and hold each other up."

                                             Photo credit Winona Kasto, Lakota head cook

After serving up buffalo soup, wild rice and more, Winona Kasto shared a photo from last night's concert. Tonight there will be another concert on the banks of Porcupine Creek, where Water Protectors are pouring in.

The best part is seeing old friends, friends made during the revolution for the water.

Tipiziwin Tolman, Lakota and Waste's sister, said, "A time to heal. A time for joy. A time to live and be in a good way. In the most precious place."

Tolman shared the history of the Yellow Lodge home place, where the gathering is being held.

"The Yellow Lodge family has lived along the Porcupine Creek since 100 years before the winter count year of the big flood (1833), around the 1730’s the Cheyenne People lived along the MniSose at the Phahin Wakpa, they left soon after and our family moved there. Before ND state and before SRST were created."

"Our grandma’s grandpa was historian and winter count keeper and steward of stories and land at Porcupine Creek. He recorded this history in 1909. He was born in the 1830s and his grandparents were children of Porcupine Creek."

"Porcupine Creek is in the official DAPL spill plan as the place where oil will be channeled when a spill happens. Where we were raised. Grass roots is real, the roots to our home and water and values are real."

History of Porcupine Creek

"Porcupine Creek is also a location in the journals of Lewis and Clark and they camped at the fork of the Missouri and Porcupine Creek."

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Lakota Youth Runners Run for the Water, Pots of Good Food Being Served at Reunion

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Lakota Youth Runners Now at the NODAPL Reunion at Standing Rock

LAKOTA YOUTH RUNNERS, RUNNING FOR THE WATER

Lakota Runners in 2006 took their message to Washington as the movement began to protect the water at Standing Rock. Now, the DC Runners are arriving at the Mni Wiconi Ten-Year NODAPL Reunion on Porcupine Creek. Photo courtesy DC Youth Runner Jasilyn Charger, Lakota.

DC Runners photo courtesy Jasilyn Charger, Lakota.

                 The Good Hearts setting up the kitchen. "Lunchtime, wild mushroom stirfry with rice and bean soup, ham n potatoes soup, you guys are missing out," Head Cook Winona Kasto said today. Photo courtesy Winona Kasto.

Water Protectors arriving on Thursday afternoon. 

Menudo and Buffalo Soup around the Fire last night, as Head Cook Winona Kasto dishes up the first meals at camp, feeding the people. Photo courtesy Winona Kasto.

"As the Seventh generation of my Grandfather Crazy Horse I do my best to keep our traditions alive and well with my cooking so that our Oyate 'people' will live well and strong so they can focus on prayers and healing of ourselves and Unci Maca 'Mother Earth,'" Lakota Chef Winona Kasto said just now.

First campers arrived last night for the Ten Year NODAPL Reunion on Porcupine Creek at Standing Rock. Photo courtesy Winona Kasto.

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Book Tour: Spy Towers Impact Revealed by Ophelia Rivas, Tohono O'odham

The Book Tour for 'Significant Impact' begins at the Ajo Library in Ajo, Arizona at 5 pm on Sept. 28, 2026. The Book Tour brings the authors to Tucson, Phoenix, Tohono O'odham Nation, Canada and Mexico. There's also pending dates in New York in January.

Significant Impact: Contesting Surveillance Infrastructure on Tohono O'odham Je'ved

By Ophelia Rivas, Caitlin Blanchfield and Valerie Kolowratnik 

Significant Impact: Contesting Surveillance Infrastructure on Tohono O’odham Je’ved brings together stories, essays, and narrative cartography in a counter environmental assessment to document and describe the effects of surveillance infrastructure on the Tohono O’odham Nation—a Native American reservation on the United States-Mexico border.

A collaboration between O’odham Human Rights advocate Ophelia Rivas, human rights scholar Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, and architectural historian Caitlin Blanchfield, the book advocates against militarized infrastructures on Indigenous lands and challenges common protocols of environmental review, along with the Western frameworks of scientific classification and property embedded in them. The project makes visible the impact of surveillance when considered through Indigenous sovereignty and an O’odham epistemology of land. It offers a visual language that is sensitive to secrecy protocols within Traditional Knowledge and that challenges the colonial biases of Western cartography.

The book situates current surveillance infrastructure projects on the Tohono O’odham Nation within a longer history of settler colonialism and border militarization, and reflects on the role of environmental review within the politics of protection in Indigenous lands.

Purchase 'Significant Impact' by scanning the RQ code above on the poster,

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