Passing the Former Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock

Just passing the site of the former Oceti Sakowin Camp, near Cannonball, that hosted more than 10,000 relatives of the Mni Wiconi Movement on Standing Rock! It is critical to always to remember that the physical world is just a fleeting shadow of the Spiritual Worlds.

The Mni Wiconi Movement is Spiritual in Nature, not Physical. It won't be that long from now when all of us who physically came here will only be memories. Memories that will slowly slip away, in time., the old making way for the new!

So it is better for ourselves and everyone around us if we don't take ourselves too seriously or think we that we are better, for some vain reason, than others. We are all destined to return to our Mother Earth. What continues, into the Other Side Camp, are the spiritual qualities, capacities, knowledge, and wisdom we have gracefully developed and shared together!

Black cattle graze in a fenced green pasture beneath a clear blue sky, with rolling tree-lined hills in the distance and a gravel roadside in front.

Wide grassy prairie stretching to distant hills and scattered trees, seen from a moving vehicle whose shadow falls on the road.

A gravel track leads from the highway through a wire fence gate toward open grassland beside a calm river under a clear blue sky.