What has risen to the surface at Standing Rock is a physical/spiritual movement. Learn how to quiet your mind. To find the silent receptive space to receive guidance. To learn to adapt and follow the pull of synchronicity to guide you to where you will find your greatest support and strength.

Resisting extractive practices is a core act of decolonizing because it directly confronts colonial systems that were built by settler-colonists who exploited, and continue today to exploit the land, water, and other resources, and Indigenous peoples for the settler's own profit, without the consent of the indigenous people.

This was decolonial, rejecting the mass production of cars and the materials that were required to manufacture them, and their consumption of fossil fuels. Reducing the extractive damage and the pollution of air, land, and water of Mother Earth.

I call this a decolonial journey because I view the past differently in light of all I've been learning over the years about how insidious colonialism is in White society. I believe this will help me continue this journey to decolonize myself.