Holy crap dude, that’s not whiteface, that’s MILK. That’s what you pour in your eyes to counteract the burning when you get tear gassed or maced.

The lady in the photo is not wearing white face...she’s been pepper sprayed and they poured milk on her face to help take away the burn. Do a Google search for pepper spray and milk, or here’s a photo of someone pouring milk onto another person’s eyes.

White face? Thats milk to counteract the pepper spray she was hit with.

Ummm, yes it.

It’s not white face. Do you see the milk in her hand? If you are sprayed with pepper spray, mace, etc., you pour milk into your eyes. Please stop leaping to conclusions.

Are you so dumb that you cannot understand the point here?

Signed up for Kinja specifically to tell you that this article and this exchange prompted me to donate $100 as well. Thank you for calling this simple action to my attention.

Unless you raise millions of dollars, money is not enough. There are groups that are against you that have more. At some point, you need bodies in the street disrupting shit. Because if they recognize that the disrupting will be become the new normal, then they will change. Raising money didn’t break the Montgormery…

That’s fine. All the destroying is being done in your name, citizen of the USA. You don’t have to be there to be partially responsible :)

this is a lot like the #notallmen argument. just because you personally consider yourself a good person, it’s necessary to acknowledge that the dinner you’re making for your family and the life you lead is in many ways built on the backs of these people.

A huge reason for this is because even on tribal lands, most police officers are not NA themselves, and the police who respond to incidents are often not culturally competent or have low opinions of the NA people they encounter. There is a lot of research that indicates that when police make concerted efforts to…

Something else to add to your list. I read that Native Americans are the second largest group killed by police in America, right after Blacks and before Latino Americans.

Of course it’s not new. But in a way this is a perfect example of crisis=opportunity. People are finally paying attention to Native American activism and the issues that underpin it. I want to believe that attention will extend beyond this brief historical moment/issue.

My sister is an immersion teacher on a reservation here in the midwest (she and my other sister’s family are at standing rock right now actually). Just a few reasons indigenous languages can’t be taught in public schools like Gaelic:

Considering that this planned pipeline was originally supposed to run around Billings but the “good” white people there didn’t want the risk to their water so it was moved it’s hard to conclude that this pipeline had no opposition from the beginning.

Thanks for saying this. I hear you. (I believe Native Americans also killed by cops at an even higher rate than any other demographic group. Also, something a lot of people don’t know related to the rape of Native women: something like 1 in 3 Native women are raped in their lifetimes, and many are raped by white men…

The pipeline has been rerouted- for white towns who didn’t want the risk to their water. The process was treated differently for the Sioux, where they treated the project like hundreds of little projects that didn’t need any environmental assessment. The only party acting in good faith during this whole thing has been…

They’ve been fighting this from the beginning, and protests began when it became clear that the Corps was just steamrolling the Standing Rock Sioux through the permitting process: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/09/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-timeline-sioux-standing-rock-jill-stein

If you want to donate supplies, there is a list of needs (pay close attention to the details — for example, they need sleeping bags, but sleeping bags that can go down to at least -10) and a link to an Amazon wishlist here. Winters in ND are brutally cold, so keeping people warm is crucial to protecting their safety…