Terrifying. North Dakota governer Jack Dalrymple just called the National Guard on the Natives blocking construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on their lands. I'm legitimately frightened for the people out there, and frightened that any tribe could be next; it could be mine but any tribe facing this is frightening. This country has never evolved in how it treated our Native nations. There is no honor: never with an intention to honor treaties, never with an intention to return the friendship offered by our people to those who came to settle here, and no honor in reacting to our people simply refusing to be removed from our own lands.

One thing is for sure, you can't scare Indians with the tactics that have been used on us. People don't get it. People don't get the hells we've experienced. They don't realize that nothing they throw at us can compare. They don't realize that our spirits are stronger and can't be broken; because we won't sell ourselves. We won't submit to authority like expected to do. This woman warrior sums it up well: