Activists in indigenous communities are reclaiming their warrior traditions in nonviolent ways. In their nonviolent protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), Native American water protectors drew upon their ancestors’ resistance to colonization. One elder reflected that in the 1970s, some members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) were armed because they did not know the force they might encounter from government officials. But during protests at the Standing Rock reservation, water protectors ensured that there were no weapons in their camp and pointed to the tools of social
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