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Indigenous women leading frontline action to location where the Dakota Access Pipeline is being buried in the ground. When the police asked them to turn around and leave with their approximately 200 supporters, they agreed to do so only if the police would join them in a prayer for the water. Once the police agreed, prayed with the group, and drank some sacred water, the Water Protectors peacefully returned to camp.
Indigenous women leading frontline action to location where the Dakota Access Pipeline is being buried in the ground. When the police asked them to turn around and leave with their approximately 200 supporters, they agreed to do so only if the police would join them in a prayer for the water. Once the police agreed, prayed with the group, and drank some sacred water, the Water Protectors peacefully returned to camp.

Indigenous women leading frontline action to location where the Dakota Access Pipeline is being buried in the ground. When the police asked them to turn around and leave with their approximately 200 supporters, they agreed to do so only if the police would join them in a prayer for the water. Once the police agreed, prayed with the group, and drank some sacred water, the Water Protectors peacefully returned to camp.

John Willis (American, born in 1957)
2016
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, inkjet print
DimensionsSheet: 61.1 × 79.1 cm (24 1/16 × 31 1/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Jeanne and Richard Press
Accession number2020.360
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
ProvenanceFebruary 2019, gift of the artist to Richard S. Press, Weston, MA; 2020, gift of Jeanne L. and Richard S. Press to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 25, 2020)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.