A fire at the center : solidarity, whiteness, and becoming a water protector : a memoir /
Van Fossan, Karen I.
A fire at the center : solidarity, whiteness, and becoming a water protector : a memoir / Karen Van Fossan. - xix, 264 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Welcome -- The Spark, the Flame -- Welcome Home -- Bridge to Somewhere -- Carrying -- Out There Somewhere -- Trash Talk -- Eviction and Another Way -- Incarcerated Bodies and Mutual Liberation -- Pipelines, Crimes, and Empire -- Sacred Subversion -- Gratitude.
"In 1987, when Karen Van Fossan's teenage identity was stolen in a botched bank robbery, she maintained an unquestioning allegiance to the colonial legal system. In 2021, when she found herself in a jail cell on a Water Protector charge, she had long since been a resister of her own colonial culture. But what does it mean, as a descendant of colonialism, to seek to be un-colonial?"--
9781558969100 1558969101
2023001597
Van Fossan, Karen I.--Political activity--Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
Women, White--Political activity--Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
White people--Political activity--Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
White people--Race identity--North Dakota--Bismarck.
Women--North Dakota--Bismarck--Biography.
Bismarck (N.D.)--Biography.
A fire at the center : solidarity, whiteness, and becoming a water protector : a memoir / Karen Van Fossan. - xix, 264 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Welcome -- The Spark, the Flame -- Welcome Home -- Bridge to Somewhere -- Carrying -- Out There Somewhere -- Trash Talk -- Eviction and Another Way -- Incarcerated Bodies and Mutual Liberation -- Pipelines, Crimes, and Empire -- Sacred Subversion -- Gratitude.
"In 1987, when Karen Van Fossan's teenage identity was stolen in a botched bank robbery, she maintained an unquestioning allegiance to the colonial legal system. In 2021, when she found herself in a jail cell on a Water Protector charge, she had long since been a resister of her own colonial culture. But what does it mean, as a descendant of colonialism, to seek to be un-colonial?"--
9781558969100 1558969101
2023001597
Van Fossan, Karen I.--Political activity--Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
Women, White--Political activity--Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
White people--Political activity--Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
White people--Race identity--North Dakota--Bismarck.
Women--North Dakota--Bismarck--Biography.
Bismarck (N.D.)--Biography.