I saw fifteen of these Dakota Pipeline “protestors” last Friday....in Ellsworth, Maine of all places.
They were on the sidewalk facing a busy street in the commercial section of town, alongside a TD Bank branch. I had business at the bank, so we parked in the parking lot.
Most of these loons were gray-haired women in their 40’s and 50’s, and one black woman with dreadlocks who was younger.
They were carrying signs that said, “Divest,” “NO DAPL” with a circle around the words and a horizontal line across the circle. About eight of them were holding a long, black paper snake with a serpent’s head high in the air. I guess that was supposed to represent an oil spill. They looked ridiculous.
Meanwhile, the “protestors” parked their cars nearby, in the parking lot of a Ramada Inn. I guess the irony of the fact that their cars run on gasoline, which is derived from oil, was lost on them.
When I drove by a few hours later, they were gone. Probably went back to Hogwarts.
The native tribe protesting the pipeline said they have a "black snake prophecy" where a big black snake (ahem, kind of like a pipeline full of oil) will appear and poison the Earth. The environmentalists were referring to it a lot. I looked all over for Lakota religious beliefs, and could not find any reference to a black snake prophecy before the pipeline.