Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement is a collection of original and republished sources related to the 2016 Indigenous resistance movement against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The editors, Nick Estes (Lower Brule) and Jaskiran Dhillon, have brought together thirty pieces, positioning essays on the history of the movement and Indigenous colonial theory alongside more evocative entries like poetry, photography, interviews, and personal reflection. The collection will prove to be a useful resource for readers seeking to understand the complexities of the Standing Rock movement, both in the classroom and for the general public, as well as a guidebook for future decolonial activists.
Standing with Standing Rock is a powerful example of how an edited collection can function as public history work. The overall accessibility of the entries—even those most theory-heavy essays are generally short and written with a non-academic...
University of California Press