num_pages: 448
description: Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access PipelineIt is prophecy. A Black Snake will spread itself across the land bringing destruction while uniting Indigenous nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline is the Black Snake crossing the Missouri River north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The oil pipeline united communities along its pathfrom North Dakota South Dakota Iowa and Illinoisand galvanized a twenty-first-century Indigenous resistance movement marching under the banner Mni WiconiWater Is Life! Standing Rock youth issued a call and millions around the world and thousands of Water Protectors from more than three hundred Native nations answered. Amid the movement to protect the land and the water that millions depend on for life the Oceti Sakowin (the Dakota Nakota and Lakota people) reunited. A nation was reborn with renewed power to protect the environment and support Indigenous grassroots education and organizing. This book assembles the multitude of voices of writers thinkers artists and activists from that movement.Through poetry and prose essays photography interviews and polemical interventions the contributors including leaders of the Standing Rock movement reflect on Indigenous history and politics and on the movements significance. Their work challenges our understanding of colonial history not simply as lessons learned but as essential guideposts for current and future activism.Contributors: Dave Archambault II Natalie Avalos Vanessa Bowen Alleen Brown Kevin Bruyneel Tomoki Mari Birkett Troy Cochrane Michelle L. Cook Deborah Cowen Andrew Curley Martin Danyluk Jaskiran Dhillon Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Liz Ellis Nick Estes Marcella Gilbert Sandy Grande Craig Howe Elise Hunchuck Michelle Latimer Layli Long Soldier David Uahikeaikaleiohu Maile Jason Mancini Sarah Sunshine Manning Katie Mazer Teresa Montoya Chris Newell The NYC Stands with Standing Rock Collective Jeffrey Ostler Will Parrish Shiri Pasternak endawnis Spears Alice Speri Anne Spice Kim TallBear Mark L. Tilsen Edward Valandra Joel Waters Tyler Young.
language: English
title: Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement
publisher: University of Minnesota Press