Taylor Collins, 11, lifts her 5-year-old sister Chloie up to an ice cream truck so she can choose her dessert as their sister Gianna, 6, at left, watches. Marktown, an East Chicago neighborhood, is bordered by steel mills and a British Petroleum refinery, seen at back.
Susan Leopold of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia watches the sun rise over an encampment where thousands have come to protest an oil pipeline. An arcade of flags whip in the North Dakota wind. Each represent one of 300 Native American tribes that have flocked here in what activists are calling the largest, most diverse tribal action in at least a century, perhaps since Little Bighorn.
Jerryon "Mank" Stevens, 15, looks in the direction of sirens and police lights while hanging out with family on the front stoop of his great grandmother's home in West Humboldt Park on April 12, 2016. A group of demonstrators gathered to protest the previous day's Chicago Police shooting of 16-year-old Pierre Loury, who Stevens knew through a friend.
Catcher Cuts the Rope Aanii and Nakota of Wyoming. A Marines veteran injured in Fallujah, Iraq, Cuts the Rope spoke of his hope for a non-violent resolution to the dispute surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline. "We will stop the pipeline, and we will do it peacefully," he said.
A mile and a half from Marktown, Happy Jacks Liquors in Whiting is one of the few stores within walking distance from the neighborhood.
A backhoe stands still after demolishing a home sold to BP, which owns the sprawling refinery seen in the background.
