| Title | : | Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (Indigenous Americas) |
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| ISBN | : | 1517905354 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781517905354 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 |
| Publication | : | Published August 27, 2019 |
It 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 path—from North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois—and galvanized a twenty-first-century Indigenous resistance movement marching under the banner Mni Wiconi—Water 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 movement’s 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 Uahikeaikalei‘ohu 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.
Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (Indigenous Americas) Reviews
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I received a free electronic copy of Standing with Standing Rock from Netgalley, Nick Estes and University of Minnesota Press. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. I have read this collection of essays, etc. of my own volition, and this review reflects my honest opinion of this work.
I can highly recommend this excellent look into the #NoDAPL resistance by First American tribes.
Over the last few years the women of the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires, have added their voices to the Saskatoon, Canadian ladies and their Idle No More resistance, elevating Standing Rock to a step in an international movement of (mostly) women of all tribes seeking to leave an environment that our grandchildren will be able to thrive upon. Common sense dictates that the world will not survive at all with our 'modern' way of doing business. Unfortunately, common sense is mostly missing in the halls of government.
Standing with Standing Rock is a collection of essays, poems, interviews, photographs, and living histories that form the basis of the Standing Rock resistance. Whatever race you consider you were born into, we are all one people. We need good, clean water every day. Without it, there is no life. It is hard to understand why this very obvious fact is lost in the fight for the continued use of fossil fuels. This work and American Indianology 101 by George L. Russell will bring you to ground zero in the battle of common sense vs. petroleum profits whatever your personal heritage. This is a battle humans can not afford to lose. We are already well on the way to becoming an endangered species. Standing with Standing Rock is essential to our continued existence.
Pub date August 27, 2019
Reviewed on August 27, 2019, at Goodreads, Netgalley, AmazonSmile, and Barnes & Noble. Was not available on BookBub, Kobo nor GooglePlay. A shame, that. -
Standing With Standing Rock is a pivotal body of work that illuminates the advocacy of our Native American Brothers and Sisters to fight for their water rights on Native Land. .When Standing Rock began the tribes issued a distress call and tribes united and as they did so they unit all of us who are advocates against big oil and fight for Native rights. The advocacy was heard around the world as all of us took up their fight for maintaining water rights on their Native lands. We watched as peaceful protesters were shot at by officers and forced off the land their tribes have owned for hundreds of years. This protest changed the world and it illuminated the cause .
This authors have included here the story of Standing Rock through poetry and prose, essays, photography, interviews and Standing Rock leaders reflections. This is uniquely personally reflective on Indigenous history and on the Standing Rock movements effect on the world. The activism is notable and illuminated well here as is the personal and the long term affect of Standing Rock on our Native Tribal lands.
Thank you to the publisher and to Net Galley for the opportunity. My opinion is my own. I recommend that all who are involved in environmental and Tribal environmental activism read this great body of work. Well done to the author's . I will be buying a hardback copy for my own library and reflection on the movement of Standing Rock and how it influences my own activism. -
I checked this out of the library and almost immediately returned it, ordering my own copy so I could underline in it! This is a solid collection of essays and interviews by several writers, covering the #NoDAPL Movement from origins to the clearing of the camps, with a lot of great insight about daily life while they were in operation. Some of the essays are a bit dense, but valuable, dealing with the global finance behind the pipeline, for example. (I've said before, I'm trying to learn more about economics, but it's a struggle). The interviews are all really good, and there's just a wealth of knowledge in the book as a whole. Also, the perspective is Indigenous throughout, which is important to note. Basically, this book is a full textbook on #NoDAPL, but a wide-ranging and always interesting one.
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This wasn't a book I could read straight through. I consumed it in pieces, with time to reflect and time to tame my seething anger between essays and interviews. I cannot visualize a meeting of spirit between honoring the ancient voices of wisdom, and the capitalistic certainty that humans own the earth. I believe that, if we stand with indigenous peoples, maybe we, the offspring of the colonizers, can rediscover our own souls. This is the way to saving the environment. Hear the voices of the Water Protectors and the mountain Protectors. Follow their lead.
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So many indigenous people have had to fight the destruction of their ancestral lands from the greed and indifference of corporate interests. This is the story of one Mashpee tribe on Cape Cod who have fought for years to clear the names of nine of their members who were falsely accused of a crime while they also fight to keep a gas pipeline away from ancestral land and waters.
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Very informative read could have used more photos to give the reader a feeling of being there.
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powerful and sweeping, a collage of voices from within the Standing Rock movement. Great context on many of the related policies and topics surrounding the greater groundswell.
