tomorrow is the last day to visit this one-of-a-kind exhibit. i contributed photographs i took on our way to and at standing rock last year. we traveled there right after a storm and the landscapes we encountered were astonishingly beautiful. hope u can make it.
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Rebecca Rafferty: Jimerson wants the show to not only respond to the Standing Rock encampment, but also all of the different environmental issues going on around the nation. By way of example, she cites the Apache resistance to the Arizona Copper Mine in Oak Flat, and the resistance to the building of an observatory on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano, which is sacred to Native Hawaiians. In 2015, there was a copper mine spill in Colorado’s Animus River that affected the Navajo people, Jimerson says.
“Standing Rock isn’t something that is brand new,” she says. “If you look at the history of the American Indian Movement, there’s always been this overarching resistance against things happening concerning the environment. It’s just that Standing Rock became this massive-scale resistance, and with social media involved, I think that’s something that made it even bigger and brought this higher awareness to it. But it’s something that’s been going on for a long time.” More here.