I believe Mother Earth is telling us it is ok now, at least for a while,” the statement read. The Crow Creek Sioux Nation Tribal Council put out a letter this week to say their participants in the protest will be leaving, with their “heads held high.” “It is winter now and the weather is brutal.
On Monday, Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II made a statement that it was time for those supporters to leave the camps and go home on Tuesday and Wednesday, thousands of campers left. The hotel, which some have referred to as “Casino Camp,” has been overflowing with people since snow and wind collapsed tents Monday and forced some protesters to seek shelter in the middle of the night in larger camp structures. Since harsh winter weather hit the encampments where thousands of people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline have been living near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on Monday, the nearby Prairie Knights Casino & Resort has been operating as a makeshift community of protesters taking shelter from the cold.
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