{"id":9491,"date":"2016-12-07T20:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2016-12-07T20:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:48:44","slug":"donations-and-activists-continue-to-flow-to-standing-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/07\/donations-and-activists-continue-to-flow-to-standing-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Donations and activists continue to flow to Standing Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dana DuGan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Phil
Phil Rainey hauled a trailer with a new yurt to Standing Rock on Saturday, along with donated items for water protectors. Photo by Dana DuGan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a small story anymore,\u201d Bellevue resident Kirsten Shultz said last week.<\/p>\n

And that was before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the Energy Transfer Partners\u2019 permit to tunnel beneath the Missouri River for the Dakota Pipeline at the controversial site located on Sioux reservation land.<\/p>\n

Shultz\u2019s daughter, Koko Furlong, a Sage School student, helped spearhead a donation drive for coats and blankets for the Standing Rock water protectors. On Saturday, Hailey resident and owner of Sun Valley Hyperbaric, Phil Rainey, drove a truck and trailer to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation with those donated goods plus a 2,000-pound yurt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe young people are doing good things,\u201d Shultz said. \u201cShe was so inspired by Lexi DuPont\u2019s posts and story (The Weekly Sun, Nov. 30). Koko decided to start collecting items\u2013\u2013heavy winter coats, blankets. We were willing to ship but then found out Phil was taking a yurt there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rainey had a long haul with his truck and trailer. The traffic to Standing Rock has intensified. Hailey resident Scott Miley loaned him a camper shell for his weeklong trip, and Rainey\u2019s brother, Pat, loaned him the trailer. Wood River Valley residents Kevin and Tobi Travis donated the new 24-foot yurt, which was still in its box. Rainey\u2019s contact at Standing Rock, a man named Bear, began building the base for the yurt at Oceti Sakowin before Rainey even arrived on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

This week, Standing Rock has experienced harsh weather typical for the region, with heavy snowfall and 40-mile-per-hour winds. Rainey said many people who came unprepared were struggling. He spent his first afternoon pulling a bus out of the snow. It had brought veterans, who all arrived without shelter or kitchen gear. Despite the hardships, the vets kicked into gear, walking onto the bridge to Turtle Island.<\/p>\n

Rainey said donations of clothes and coats are plentiful but the need for such items as firewood, food and propane continues. Financial donations help with the infrastructure, such as paying for the porta-potties. There are some 10,000 people now encamped at Standing Rock.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of wooden structures are being built,\u201d Rainey said. \u201cThey\u2019re in it for the long haul, staying all winter. I\u2019m looking at one right now that\u2019s just 800 square feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

The practical issues are enormous. There are makeshift roads that have evolved. There is security, medic tents, and donation drop-off points.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are helping each other and it\u2019s pretty interesting to see,\u201d said Rainey. \u201cA lot of people came to help, but have idea what to do, so they\u2019re wandering around just experiencing the whole thing. And there are a lot of film crews.\u201d Not a small, regional story any longer.<\/p>\n

Rainey said the Natives are fairly tolerant of the outsiders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re making use of the attention,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019ve been abused for so many years, and kicked around. That gets brought up quite a bit at the sacred circle gatherings. It\u2019s a neat experience, watching the dancing and chanting.\u00a0 <\/span>Most people give them space and let them do their thing and watch from the background. People are being polite.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, when it was announced that the permit was denied, a lot of cheers went up, but there was caution, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve heard this before,\u201d Rainey said. \u201cWe\u2019re hearing that the ETP says they\u2019re not adhering to that. If they don\u2019t, they\u2019ll be fined $50,000 a day and just continue to work. We can\u2019t see their worksite, but I\u2019d imagine they are still doing what they can as quickly as they can before the ground freezes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dana DuGan \u201cIt\u2019s not a small story anymore,\u201d Bellevue resident Kirsten Shultz said last week. And that was before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the Energy Transfer Partners\u2019 permit to tunnel beneath the Missouri River for the Dakota Pipeline at the controversial site located on Sioux reservation land. Shultz\u2019s daughter, Koko Furlong, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment-2","8":"category-news","9":"category-slider"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}