Indigenous Americans for over 300 years have been treated as invisible; treaties and promises routinely ignored. Mainstream media ignored it as long as they could for fear of upsetting advertisers but pressure kept building and, surprise: the water protectors put at least a temporary halt to the Dakota Access Pipeline (the big black snake). Common Dreams reporter Nika Knight, who followed the protest from the beginning, discusses what it means. Trump is an investor in the pipeline; what can he do after January 20th? Can this be a lesson to us all that we are not powerless after all? What does this mean for the environmental movement?