Standoff
Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands
Torrey House Press · Print & ebook · April 30, 2021
"A powerful, illuminating book." —LOUISE ERDRICH, author of The Night Watchman Native young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Océti Sakówin camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow.
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- Who it’s for
- Jacqueline Keeler examines two 2016 standoffs and their place in America’s conflicts over sacred lands.
- Genres
- Indigenous Studies, 21st-Century America, Native American Studies
- Published
- Torrey House Press, April 30, 2021
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"A powerful, illuminating book." —LOUISE ERDRICH, author of The Night Watchman 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.
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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.
Two 2016 Standoffs
Jacqueline Keeler examines two 2016 standoffs and their place in America’s conflicts over sacred lands.
Come here for
- Standing Rock’s pipeline protest
- The Malheur Wildlife Refuge takeover
Expect
- A comparison of media coverage and law enforcement responses
- Two events framed as sides of the same American story
Where it sits
| 21st-Century America | 31% |
|---|---|
| Indigenous Studies | 30% |
| Native American Studies | 20% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Native American History
- Conservation
- Native American Studies
- Authors
- Jacqueline Keeler
- Publisher
- Torrey House Press
- Published
- April 30, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Native American History