A fire at the center : solidarity, whiteness, and becoming a water protector : a memoir / Karen Van Fossan.
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- Van Fossan, Karen I. (Karen Irene) -- 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
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A firsthand account of two colonial pipelines and their resistance: the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock and the Line 3 pipeline on Anishinaabe lands.
This is a story of becoming and un-becoming. When the living waters that crisscrossed the Standing Rock reservation came under threat, minister of the nearby Unitarian Universalist congregation Karen Van Fossan asked herself what it means, as a descendent of colonialism, to resist her own colonial culture. When another pipeline, Line 3, came to threaten Anishinaabe ways of life, the question became even more resounding.
In A Fire at the Center , Van Fossan takes readers behind the scenes of the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict, to penitentiaries where prisoners of war have carried the movement onward, to the jail cell where she was held for protesting Line 3, to a reimagining of decolonized family constellations, and to moments of collective hope and strength.
With penetrating insight, she blends memoir, history, and cultural critique. Guided by the generous teachings of Oceti Sakowin Camp near Standing Rock, she investigates layers of colonialism--extractive industries, mass incarceration, broken treaties, disappearances of Indigenous people--and the boundaries of imperial whiteness.
For all those striving for liberation and meaningful allyship, Van Fossan's learnings and practices of genuine, mutual solidarity and her thoughtful critique of whiteness will be transformational.
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?"-- Provided by publisher.