Lay of the Land

SANTA FE REPORTER: “It’s kind of been madness at our house,” Ginger Dunnill tells me. “Standing Rock has taken over. … We go every summer to see Cannupa’s family and we’ve been to the camp twice, once in June and again in August. … I think everybody is starting to feel it in a way, but for me and for him specifically, we’re feeling it.”

Dunnill is probably best known as Miss Ginger, a local DJ who kicks out the dance jams pretty hard, but lately she’s been casting a wider net, both as artist and activist. She’s married to Cannupa Hanska-Luger, a well-known local Native artist who was born near Standing Rock, thus the special interest in the current political climate in North Dakota and the protesting of the straight-up evil Dakota Access pipeline. Protest or not, Dunnill says her family would be visiting Standing Rock anyway, though they’re proud to have thrown in with the other Native nations. “It’s about family,” she says. “We’re going to access all our resources and approach this in a punk-as-fuck way—we are not afraid.”

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