Standoff : Standing Rock, the Bundy movement, and the American story of sacred lands

Author

Jacqueline Keeler

Call Number

• 323.1197 K263 (CEN)

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Edition

First Torrey House Press edition.

Publication Information

[Minneapolis, Minnesota] : Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2021.

Physical Description

236 pages : 21 cm

Summary

"Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Océti Sakówin camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge led by the Bundy family. These events unfolded in vastly different ways, from media coverage to the reactions of law enforcement. In Standoff, Jacqueline Keeler examines these episodes as two sides of the same story that created America and its deep-rooted cultural conflicts."--Amazon.

Contents

• Introduction
• From Malheur to Standing Rock
• Origin stories
• Deseret vs. Océti Sakówin
• Two paths to sovereignty: the Great Sioux Nation and the American colonies
• Standing Rock, treaties, and the violent nature of the occupation of unceded lands
• Can the land make us one people?
• Center of the buffalo.