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115 Work with a partner to write seven questions about the article using each of these question words once: who, which, what, when, where, how, why . Swap your questions with another pair and answer theirs. Now work in groups of four to discuss your answers. Expand your vocabulary: Collocations Read through the article again and underline expressions that mean: WRITING + SPEAKING 35 a b c LANGUAGE 36 cares about you … in your community at Standing Rock. Even if you feel no one loves you, no one cares about you, I love you, I care about you. I want to pray with you again. And if you kill yourself now, I won’t be able to do that.’”He pauses. “And my brother is still alive today.” E As one of the leaders of One Mind Youth, Jasilyn Charger, explains, they were hoping the religious activities would teach children the skills to survive threats like drug abuse and bullying. The One Mind Youth leaders had been exposed to ideas and training that linked the pipeline fights to larger struggles in their society. Pipelines, for example, are linked to the prophecy of the black snake, a figure out of Lakota myth. It symbolizes a darkness, a sickness, and its only intention is to create dysfunction and loss of life in native communities. The message was clear: The struggle against the pipeline was part of the struggle against alcoholism, suicide and abuse so frequent on Native American reservations. But what could they do to get their message out? F In November 2015, the company Energy Transfer Partners was trying to build the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would move half a million barrels of oil a day beneath the Missouri River, the main source of drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux and other downstream Sioux reservations. A group of young Sioux activists, called ‘One Mind Youth’, came to believe that the Dakota pipeline was not only a threat to their drinking water but also a sign of the environmental crisis their generation would inherit. For this reason, they helped establish a tiny ‘prayer camp’ just off the Dakota Access route. Over the next six months that camp grew into a movement that united conservative farmers with the American Indian Movement and urban environmentalists with the traditional chiefs of Native American tribes. But barely noticed at the time was the unlikely start of the movement: a tight-knit group of youths, most younger than 25. G One factor that helped increase nationwide support even more was the growing violence by the police. The images of campers being maced or attacked by dogs spread anger across the country. Part of the prophecy that underlies the movement is the idea that should the Sioux resort to violence, they could be wiped out. There were strict rules that the protest would have to be done in ‘peace and prayer’. The youths took this seriously, even as they found themselves under physical threat. Twenty-six-year-old Eryn Wise had moved to the camp in late August 2016. She remembers watching on Facebook Live as her sister was maced. Furious, she raced to the scene and threw herself at the police. Suddenly there were six hands on her shoulders, pulling her back. Others were praying for the police and keeping the protest peaceful, their faces white with what looked like war paint but was in fact tear gas. a to not give a lot of encouragement b to be shown admiration and respect c to refuse to allow something d to make an official statement about a choice e to perform a set of traditional or religious acts f to be given the opportunity to learn about sth. g to use actions that are intended to hurt people h to consider sth. worth your respect Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum d s Verlags öbv