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Having trouble viewing this email? View this email on the web. Indian Country Today logo July 27, 2017 An Exclusive Peek at Indian Country Magazine—Just for You Dear loyal reader— As a thank you for your continued interest in Indian Country Media Network, we’re offering you a free, exclusive look into a feature that appears in our June-July 2017 issue. It’s an excerpt from a feature-length narrative we think is so important, we’re doing the best we can to spread the word. It’s called Oceti Sakowin: Lighting the Sacred Fire At Standing Rock by West Coast Editor Valerie Taliman: Nick Estes, Kul Wicasa (Lower Brule Sioux), a doctoral candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico, explains that the camp Horn is the historic and symbolic political organization of the Oceti Sakowin. Four nations represent the eastern Dakota-speaking people, the Mdewankantonwan, the Wahpekute, the Sissintonwan, and the Wahpetonwan. Two nations represent the middle-territory Nakota- speak...