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Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands Kindle Edition

by Jacqueline Keeler (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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. 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.
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Praise for Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears, edited by Jacqueline Keeler
"Encompassing wisdom and grace, Edge of Morning is a finessed articulation of respect and the simplicity of being human...thoughtful, sobering, and expansive." ―FOREWORD REVIEWS
"An important new collection of Native American writers essaying the cultural significance of Utah's Bears Ears landscape...Edge of Morning includes works from members of different tribes, as well as different levels of expertise...scholars and grassroots activists, and from poets as well as prose writers." ―THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
"This beautiful collection presents Native American expressions in poems, essays, reflections and interviews. While all the pieces focus on Bears Ears, it's their illumination of Native Americans' kinship to land that make these texts such an important read...The native voices of this collection offer their timely wisdom with a grace and power that offers peace to our planet and to ourselves." ―THE DESERET NEWS
"Edge of Morning will...invigorate the public policy details of environmental issues and natural conservation with new voices that not only inspire emotionally but also lay out the significant cultural case that compels a new point of view about the stewardship of public lands." ―THE UTAH REVIEW
"This anthology seeks to tell stories by native writers about the Bears Ears and its importance. Storytelling is a way of making sure the importance of the land is known, and can help spread awareness...a worthy project." ―THE SEATTLE REVIEW OF BOOKS

About the Author

Jacqueline Keeler is a Dine/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer living in Portland, Oregon. She is editor of the anthology Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears and has contributed to many publications including The Nation, Yes! magazine, and Salon.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08P8YV59T
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Torrey House Press (March 30, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 940 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 239 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1937226891
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Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer living in Portland, Oregon. She has been published in The Nation, Salon.com, The DailyBeast, Quartz, and many other publications. Keeler has been interviewed on PRI’s The World, BBC, MSNBC, and Democracy Now. Her book “The Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears” and “Standing Rock to the Bundy Standoff: Occupation, Native Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Landscapes” are both available from Torrey House Press.

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Joseph V. Kelly
5.0 out of 5 stars Origin Stories as Algorithms and the Costs of Colonialism
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2021
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No one else has created a framework to understand our present political standoff by looking at the contrasting origin stories of Indigenous People vs. that of colonists. This marks a new way of analyzing our present situation and the outcomes (climate change) of those origin stories, which Keeler calls algorithms.

This book is not just about the conflicts of Standing Rock or Malheur but what causes them and how they are deeply embedded in the DNA of the United States as an ongoing colonial occupation. You won't find this sort of analysis anywhere else. It doesn't exist. This is something entirely new, and it would have to come from an Indigenous woman.

Keeler also totally deconstructs the propaganda around the Revolutionary War and how it feeds the Bundys and other far right-wing militia groups' sense of purpose. Well worth a read.
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Lois J. Breedlove
5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive.
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2021
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The contrast between Standing Rock and Malheur is an interesting one, even more so in light of the Jan. 6 riot.
Highly recommend.
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John H. Buckner MD
4.0 out of 5 stars truth
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2021
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Important details about the fictions used by the Supreme Court to justify usurpation of the property of the indigenous populations of this continent..
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Immer
3.0 out of 5 stars Compelling But in Serious Need of an Edit
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2021
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Another in a series of books that I really wanted to like. As per the Kirkus Reviews, “Stand-off is eye-opening and compelling”, and had the potential to be a powerful book, but falls prey to a redundancy that contributes nothing beside pages to the dialogue. There is a very good book within the 236 pages, and unfortunately it’s left to the reader to edit out the chaff. Someone who lived in a cave during the Malheur takeover and the Standing Rock water protectors against DAPL, will find the book a bit more interesting than someone who followed these issues as they occurred.

Keeler shines when she writes about the scofflaw Bundy’s and their anti-government mantra, their claims of sovereignty, and rights to the land that they believe cannot be owned by the federal government (I’ve often wondered that without the feds cavalry in the Indian campaigns, these folks ancestors scalps would have been lifted) in contrast to the native people who originally inhabited the land, signed treaties that should have carried the consistency as a treaty signed with any other sovereign nation (here,an appendix would have been helpful, listing the signed treaties particular to the book and whether they were signed by congress or not, and how said treaties were broken.

Keeler does write with power with quotes such as what is happening on reservations, “The ongoing body count is the real price our women, children, elders and men pay for the continued existence of the United States. These are small daily massacres - the body count did not end at Wounded Knee.” Yet, most of chapter two reads like a series of blog posts cobbled together, redundant to the point of tears.

The Cowboys won in Nevada and Malheur, the Indians, ultimately, once again lost at Standing Rock. Nothing has really changed in our history. Keeler’s Standoff could also use a couple of maps, a few pictures, sources, and an index for the purpose of cross referencing. When the author is not lost in redundancy and minutia, she does a fine job in explaining this continuing embarrassing chapter in the history of our country.
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