The project documents the unprecedented gathering of more than 200 native american tribes and around 5 thousand people opposing the build of a 3 billion dollar pipeline project in Standing Rock Sioux tribe, North Dakota. The gathered that started with a few hundreds youth protectors snowballed into a rising movement that at its peak contained more than 5 thousand people. These self-proclaimed water protectors, natives and non-natives alike came from different reservation around the US and around the world to oppose a pipeline proposed to cross sacred Sioux Lands and the Missouri river basin. The aim of the project was to capture different stories of water protectors around the camps and dissect the rising movement into smaller cells, revealing its human centric idea. The portraits aimed to depict the water protectors as their true self, peaceful, strong and determined, in contrast with the biased local media and police view constantly painting them as violent and trouble-makers. Native American history is a history of broken treaties. As long as a valuable resource is found on Native Land, treaties are broken and unhonoured by the US government. First prized fur, then gold, and now oil. History repeats itself, hence the title of the project referring to old line in Native American treaties referring to an undetermined and infinite passage of time. Treaties will be broken and grass might not grow forever and rivers might stop flowing in the anthropocene era that we live in.
