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Standing Rock : greed, oil and the Lakota's struggle for justice / Bikem Ekberzade.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Zed Books, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xv, 216 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781786992833
  • 1786992833
  • 9781786992826
  • 1786992825
Other title:
  • Greed, oil and the Lakota's struggle for justice
Subject(s):
Contents:
Before we begin -- The resistance -- Seventh generation -- The black snake -- Showdown at Standing Rock.
Summary: Ekberzade recounts the tale--through conversations with the key players--of the protest movement within the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation against the re-routing of the Dakota Access Pipeline through reservation lands. She also explores how the movement fits into an epic, centuries-old story of struggle, dispossession and the persecution of America's indigenous peoples, as told to her directly by the guardians of the oral history of the Great Plains. --Adapted from publisher description.
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Not for Loan Not for Loan Main Library North Dakota Collection 978.4004 E36 Not for loan 33111009570926
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 978.4004 E36 Available 33111009682705
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In 2016, the world looked on as thousands set up camp within Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the re-routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline close to the Reservation's northern border. People from many Native American tribes were joined by non-tribal environmentalists, including US army veterans, all of them standing in solidarity with the Lakota. Then, in early 2017, the protest was disbanded using brutal force. And that is when the real struggle began.

From the decline of the East coast tribes to the dispossession of the native people along the Missouri basin, from the Battle of Little Bighorn to Wounded Knee, America's indigenous peoples have been subject to horrendous persecution, land grabs and the steady erosion of their way of life. Frontline journalist Ekberzade Bikem recounts the epic story of this centuries' old struggle as told to her by the guardians of the oral history of the Great Plains, the grandson of chief Sitting Bull's nephew and many of the other activists pledged to continue the fight in the aftermath of Standing Rock.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-210) and index.

Before we begin -- The resistance -- Seventh generation -- The black snake -- Showdown at Standing Rock.

Ekberzade recounts the tale--through conversations with the key players--of the protest movement within the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation against the re-routing of the Dakota Access Pipeline through reservation lands. She also explores how the movement fits into an epic, centuries-old story of struggle, dispossession and the persecution of America's indigenous peoples, as told to her directly by the guardians of the oral history of the Great Plains. --Adapted from publisher description.

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