It does not help that neither of the two main presidential candidates has endeared themselves to the Native American activists taking a stand at Standing Rock. Kyle is about 300 miles away from the Standing Rock encampments. Banks was one of the co-founders of the American Indian Movement, a radical Native American civil rights group that formed in 1968. (Banks was convicted of charges stemming from American Indian Movement protests on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.) “Hell, I’m not going to be vice-president of the United States.”Other candidates merit an occasional mention by the Standing Rock activists.

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2016 10:01 UTC