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STANDING WITH STANDING ROCK VOICES FROM THE #NODAPL MOVEMENT Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors STANDING WITH STANDING ROCK INDIGENOUS AMERICAS Robert Warrior, Series Editor Chadwick Allen Scott Richard Lyons Trans- Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native X- Marks: Native Signatures of Assent Literary Studies Aileen Moreton- Robinson Raymond D. Austin The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: Indigenous Sovereignty A Tradition of Tribal Self- Governance Jean M. 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Williams Jr. Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders America Thomas King The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative STANDING WITH STANDING ROCK Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement NICK ESTES AND JASKIRAN DHILLON EDITORS INDIGENOUS AMERICAS University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Copyright 2019 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401- 2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu ISBN 978-1-5179-0536-1 (pb) — ISBN 978-1-5179-0535-4 (hc) A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and employer. 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Prologue ix Introduction: The Black Snake, #NoDAPL, and the Rise of a People’s Movement 1 Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon PART I. LEADING THE RESISTANCE 1. Badass Indigenous Women Caretake Relations: #Standingrock, #IdleNoMore, #BlackLivesMatter 13 Kim TallBear 2. In the Beginning 19 Mark K. Tilsen 3. “This Fight Has Become My Life, and It’s Not Over”: An Interview with Zaysha Grinnell 21 Jaskiran Dhillon 4. Traditional Leadership and the Oceti Sakowin: An Interview with Lewis Grassrope 24 Nick Estes 5. Taking a Stand at Standing Rock 37 David Archambault II PART II. LIVING HISTORIES 6. “They Took Our Footprint Out of the Ground”: An Interview with LaDonna Bravebull Allard 43 Nick Estes 7. Mnisose 56 Craig Howe and Tyler Young 8. Mni Wiconi: Water Is [More Than] Life 71 Edward Valandra 9. The Great Sioux Nation and the Resistance to Colonial Land Grabbing 90 Roxanne Dunbar- Ortiz 10. The Supreme Law of the Land: Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline 96 Jeffrey Ostler and Nick Estes PART III. LEGAL AND SOCIOPOLITICAL LANDSCAPES AND STATE VIOLENCE 11. Striking at the Heart of Capital: International Financial Institutions and Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights 103 Michelle L. Cook 12. Beyond Environmentalism: #NoDAPL as Assertion of Tribal Sovereignty 158 Andrew Curley 13. Resolutions 169 Layli Long Soldier 14. Centering Sovereignty: How Standing Rock Changed the Conversation 172 Elizabeth Ellis 15. Counterterrorism Tactics at Standing Rock 198 Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, and Alice Speri PART IV. ENVIRONMENTAL COLONIZATION 16. Heal the People, Heal the Land: An Interview with Freda Huson 210 Anne Spice 17. The Financing Problem of Colonialism: How Indigenous Jurisdiction Is Valued in Pipeline Politics 222 Shiri Pasternak, Katie Mazer, and D. T. Cochrane 18. What Standing Rock Teaches Us about Environmental Justice 235 Jaskiran Dhillon PART V. EDUCATION AND CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES 19. Red Praxis: Lessons from Mashantucket to Standing Rock 245 Sandy Grande, Natalie Avalos, Jason Mancini, Christopher Newell, and endawnis Spears 20. For Standing Rock: A Moving Dialogue 261 Tomoki Mari Birkett and Teresa Montoya 21. A Lesson in Natural Law 281 Marcella Gilbert 22. Standing Rock: The Actualization of a Community and a Movement 290 Sarah Sunshine Manning 23. #NoDAPL Syllabus Project 301 The New York City Stands with Standing Rock Collective PART VI. INDIGENOUS ORGANIZING AND SOLIDARITY IN MOVEMENT BUILDING 24. Lessons from the Land: Peace through Relationship 307 Michelle Latimer 25. Wake Work versus Work of Settler Memory: Modes of Solidarity in #NoDAPL, Black Lives Matter, and Anti- Trumpism 311 Kevin Bruyneel 26. Threats of Violence: Refusing the Thirty Meter Telescope and Dakota Access Pipeline 328 David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile 27. Decolonize This Place and Radical Solidarity: An Interview with Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain 344 Jaskiran Dhillon 28. Death of Hydra 352 Joel Waters 29. Mapping a Many- Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance 354 Katie Mazer, Martin Danyluk, Elise Hunchuck, and Deborah Cowen Acknowledgments 383 Contributors 387 Publication Information 393 Index 395 Prologue One evening in October 2016, before the violent eviction of the 1851 Treaty Camp on Highway 1806 on October 27, Nick Estes was invited to a strategy session at Prairie Knights Casino, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Phyllis Young, a former Standing Rock councilwoman and a longtime member of the American Indian Movement, led the meeting. She played an audio recording from a meeting on September 30, 2014, between the Standing Rock Council and representatives of Energy Transfer Partners and the Dakota Access Pipeline. The meeting took place when the Oceti Sakowin, the Great Sioux Nation, led historic resistance against the Keystone XL Pipeline, which cut through the heart of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty territory. At that time, the focus was on defeating KXL; few had heard of DAPL. Those who had took it seriously as an existential threat to Indigenous sov- ereignty and the future of not just Standing Rock but also the downriver Indig- enous nations, non- Native peoples, non- Native life, and other- than- human life. The audio clip played at the meeting begins with Tribal Chairman David Archambault II unequivocally declaring that Standing Rock opposed DAPL and all pipelines trespassing through the 1868 treaty territory and concludes with Phyllis Young’s prophetic words and warning to DAPL. Her words have informed the spirit of #NoDAPL and this book. We share them here in honor and respect for this Standing Rock elder and dignitary. As history was being told, history was unfolding. And it has not stopped. We will put our best warriors in the front. We are the vanguard. We are Hunkpapa Lakota. That means the horn of the buffalo. That’s who we are. We are protectors of our nation of Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires. Know who we are. We will put forward our young people, our young lawyers who understand the weasel words of the English language, who know one word can mean seven things. We understand the forked tongue that our grand- fathers talked about. We know about talking out both sides of your mouth, smiling with one side of your face. We know all about the tricks of the wasicu [the fat- taker, the capitalist] world. Our young people have mastered it. I have mastered your language. I can speak eloquently in the English language. My grandmother taught me. But I also know the genetic psyche, and I also have the collective memory of the damages that have occurred to my people. I will never submit to any pipeline to go through my homeland. Mitakuye Oyasin. ix
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