The Sioux wish the Standing Rock leftist protesters would go away. But the protests have offered lefties the opportunity to put on their best plastic Native American colored beads from Shanghai while trying to channel that unique form of Native American spirituality only found in old episodes of Northern Exposure.
Fool Bear has had it with the protesters.
Go down to the camps, he says, and you won't see many Standing Rock Sioux.
"It irks me. People are here from all over the world," he says. "If they could come from other planets, I think they would."
Speaking of other planets, there's Arthur Waskow and the sorts of lefties, mostly anti-Israel, eager to sign on to his letters. This one warns of "the imposition of the oil-bearing Dakota Access Pipeline upon the sacred ancestral lands of the Sioux Nation" where it's "endangering the entire web of life of Mother Earth".
Oh no! Not the entire web of life of Mother Earth!
Waskow warns that, "the exhausted earth will erupt against us" and denounces, "fracked unnatural gas". What is "fracked unnatural gas". Who knows. But there's a call to send winter supplies to the idiot protesters and a call for "all state and federal agencies to affirm and respect the role of the Native communities in defending the weave of life upon the continent we know as North America, and they have for centuries called Turtle Island."
Right. Turtle island. That's what white leftists think makes them sound authentically Northern Exposure.
If indigenous rights were really being respected, the standing gang of loons would leave.
Even though Fool Bear is against the protests, that doesn't mean he's not preparing to help people out, too. He anticipates opening the community gymnasium for people without beds come winter, and a growing pile of sleeping bags and blankets sits in his office.
Those protesters from Arizona, Georgia and California won't know what hit them when the cold rushes in, he says.
It might be more helpful to send money to the Sioux to help them take care of the infestation of leftist idiots who don't understand how weather actually works.
Waskow's letter was signed by the usual leftist clergy, Jill Jacobs of the anti-Israel group T'ruah, Mordechai Liebling, Shmuly Yanklowitz, Julie Schonfeld, Phyllis Berman, Tirzah Firestone, Sharon Kleinbaum and Susan Talve.
A bunch of the signatures come from folks who are more known for signing letters denouncing Israel so it's a nice break for them to instead fight unnatural gas and protect the weave of life on Turtle Island.