It is the greed of banks, petroleum producers, our own government that is causing the Lakota Tribe and the people who have came to protect their land, water and sacred grounds from those that could care less https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/18/north-dakota-pipeline-activists-bakken-oil-fields. For many Indians, this is their last stand after having their homes, hunting and life torn apart by uncaring bureaucrats who felt that those in Washington DC knew better than the people living there.
I wish you peace, but while you're enjoying your family and friends, know that there are hundreds of Indians and like-minded protesters braving Minnesota winds and rain while being brutally treated by those that we grew up thinking they were here to protect us.