Midwives At Standing Rock Aren’t Going Anywhere

By Katie Toth

We arrive at Oceti Sakowin camp, next to Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and about two miles north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, at a moment of transition. It’s Thursday, December 8, and just five days ago, the U.S. Army denied Energy Transfer Partners the easement they needed to keep building a pipeline through the sacred land of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.