Anthropology majors Anna Kerr-Carpenter, Lucy Bullock and Jordan Prats, all seniors, spent Thanksgiving break at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, where protests against the building of a 1,168-mile Dakota Access Pipeline have made national headlines in the past year. Tribe officials say the pipeline destroys sacred sites and threatens a river that’s a source of water for millions. The students delivered winter clothes, food and other donations at the two largest camps: Sacred Stones and Oceti Sakowin. On Thanksgiving, the three joined a sunset prayer circle at the base of a burial mound the Lakota call Turtle Island, where Kerr-Carpenter took this photo. “The camps, which have had continuously fluid and dynamic leadership since the movement started, are very well organized and fortified in constant, daily ceremony and prayer,” she said. “For now, we are all still processing our experience.”

(Photo by Anna Kerr-Carpenter ’17)