TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Fossan,Karen I.
TI  - A fire at the center: solidarity, whiteness, and becoming a water protector : a memoir 
SN  - 9781558969100
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Skinner House Books
KW  - Van Fossan, Karen I.
KW  - Women, White
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
KW  - White people
KW  - Race identity
KW  - North Dakota
KW  - Bismarck
KW  - Women
KW  - Biography
KW  - Bismarck (N.D.)
N1  - 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
N2  - "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?"--
ER  -