Standing Rock

Greed, Oil and the Lakota's Struggle for Justice

Bikem Ekberzade

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781786992857
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Conservation & Protection
• Index: Biological Sciences

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.

Index

Allard, LaDonna 11–17, 27, 31–4, 41, 46–51, 58–61, 70–4, 77–8, 99, 107, 122, 126, 135–6, 140–7, 153–60, 163, 167, 169, 172–7, 181, 201

American Horse 82, 83

American Indian Movement (AIM) 133–5

American Indian Religious Freedom Act 80, 197

Apache, the 17–18, 22; Western 191

Arapahoe, the 22, 102

Archambault II, David 38, 155–6, 160, 167, 181, 194, 205

Arikara, the 100, 107, 137, 139

arrests 147–52, 158, 166, 204

assimilation ix, xiii, 10, 16, 18, 56, 68, 74, 80, 82, 89, 116, 143, 182, 186

Assiniboin, the 93

Atlantic Sunrise Natural Gas Pipeline 178

Azarga Resources 24–5

Badlands 128

Basso, Keith 18, 23, 191, 208

Battle of: Horseshoe Bend 118; Little Bighorn 31, 124–6, 128, 130, 201; Greasy Grass 125, 127, 133, 201

Bismarck 35–7, 39, 41, 62

Bismarck Tribune 36, 38, 151, 193–4, 204

Blackfeet, the 63, 65, 93, 101, 125

Black Elk 21, 125, 139, 191, 201, 209

Black Hills: x, xii, 20–7, 102, 125–6, 191–2, 207, 209; Paha Sapa xii, 20–1, 24

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Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue
• Before we begin…
• One: The resistance
• Two: Seventh Generation
• Three: The black snake
• Four: Showdown at Standing Rock
• Epilogue
• Author’s note
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index