The Voices of Indigenous People Continue to Be Silenced | Sojourners

The Voices of Indigenous People Continue to Be Silenced

Nathan Phillips marches with other protesters out of the main opposition camp against the Dakota Access oil pipeline near Cannon Ball, N.D., Feb. 22, 2017. REUTERS/Terray Sylvester

The focus of the confrontation between Phillips and Nick Sandmann remained caught in the news, and people immediately raced the well-worn paths to their ideological camps. But missing from the narrative — and certainly from the new counter-narrative — are the Indigenous voices that have been silenced or villainized by the rise and power of white supremacy in America.

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