Father Fortier, a self-effacing man whose gentleness belies the depth ... at Wounded Knee in 1973 and was part of the prayer at Standing Rock, visited the Lancaster Stand to urge the activists ...

Another was more hopeful: Black Elk, a holy man of the Oglala Lakota ... Running Bear, a 32-year-old Standing Rock member, said native people have been praying since the days of Christopher ...

The snow-scoured hills and buttes of the Missouri Breaks are dotted with isolated houses, until the sudden appearance of the Oceti Sakowin encampment on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.