Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice

Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental JusticeThe controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting American oil from the Bakken oil fields of the northern plains to markets nationwide, essential to both national security and prosperity. Native activists named it the "black snake," referring to an ancient prophecy about a terrible snake that would one day devour the earth. Activists rallied near the

their only daughter

she hasn’t been in touch in months

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and intelligence to develop culturally specific decolonization strategies for their own communities and thereby systematically pursue their own liberation

and memoir

longer narrative sequences

the significance of the cradle endures

and traditional stories

One man uses watermelon to draw flies off poached deer

Echo finds herself transported to the banks of the Red River in the summer of 1869

the kind that's hard to forget

Author Stephanie Woodard details the ways in which the federal government