Native Americans gathered at Standing Rock are approaching this Thanksgiving with deeply conflicted feelings. Standing Rock: injured protester's father says police account is 'bogus nonsense' Read moreKandi Mosset, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara nation, has mixed feelings about the gesture. ‘Oh, we want to help the poor Indians on Thanksgiving of all days?’” asked the 37-year-old who has been at Standing Rock since August. Houska, the national campaigns director for Honor the Earth, said that she was planning to spend Thanksgiving with friends who live on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. “No one left.”Wakiya will be back at Standing Rock on Thursday, after a short trip home to California, and he defended Fonda’s plan to serve dinner.
Source: The Guardian November 24, 2016 13:42 UTC