Standing Rock

Dec.21.-Dec.29. 2016

Ati Maier joined the Oomaka Tokatakiya Ride through SD and send dispatches for Bomb Magazine.

Join the ride

The Oomaka Tokatakiya is a nearly 300-mile memorial horseback ride across South Dakota in the United States. The ride starts on December 15th, at the site where the Lakota Indian Chief Sitting Bull was killed, and traces the trail taken by some of his tribe to join Chief Big Foot. It goes on to follow Big Foot's effort to reach Chief Red Cloud in Pine Ridge. And ends on the December 29th at the site where the Wounded Knee Massacre took hundreds of truly innocent lives in 1890.

But in 1992 the ride was restarted and aimed squarely at the future.

While the ride is still in homage to Sitting Bull, Big Foot and those who lost their lives at Wounded Knee, the ride is also meant as a cultural embrace to foster leadership qualities in the youth.

Along the way, the riders experience some of what their ancestors endured by embodying an intellectual, spiritual, and physical remembrance. Braving the brutal South Dakota winters,

these kids, as young as seven, ride up to 35 miles in a day

Ati Maier

was reporting from the

Oceti Sakowin Water Protectors camp

on standing rock sioux reservation in ND

for BOMB magazine:

Dispatch #1

Dispatch #2

Dispatch #3

Dispatch #4

please stand by the water protectors

against the construction

of the DAPL oil pipeline

and spread the word

and support.