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Dominican Sisters Travel to Standing Rock
Submitted by Sister Julie Schwab, O.P.
I find it difficult to put our experience at Standing Rock into words. However, I will begin here and my traveling companions can add their reflections.
I cannot begin to describe the sickening feeling that passed through me when we stood on the road and witnessed massive machines gouging into Earth’s fertile surface leaving a 150ft-wide wound that snaked over Her graceful contours for as far as the eye could see in either direction (1,172 miles long).
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