RAPID CITY – Advocates for the U.N. declaration of a World Indigenous Peoples Decade of Water have partnered with local organizations to drum up grassroots support at the Mni Ki Wakan (Water is Sacred) Summit here Aug. 13-15.
The international public event is taking place on the heels of conveners’ presentation in Geneva to the 12th Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, EMRIP.
Addressing the U.N. body there on July 18, Wakinyan Skye LaPointe, Sicangu Lakota, spoke