Mapping a Many-Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance

Mazer, Katie; Danyluk, Martin; Hunchuck, Elise; Cowen, Deborah

Abstract

It is prophecy. A Black Snake will spread itself across the land, bringing destruction while uniting Indigenous nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline is the Black Snake, crossing the Missouri River north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The oil pipeline united communities along its path—from North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois—and galvanized a twenty-first-century Indigenous resistance movement marching under the banner Mni Wiconi—Water Is Life! Standing Rock youth issued a call, and millions around the world and thousands of Water Protectors from more than three hundred Native nations answered. Amid the movement to protect the land and the water that millions depend on for life, the Oceti Sakowin (the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota people) reunited. A nation was reborn with renewed power to protect the environment and support Indigenous grassroots education and organizing. This book assembles the multitude of voic

Citation

Mazer, K., Danyluk, M., Hunchuck, E., & Cowen, D. (2019). Mapping a Many-Headed Hydra: Transnational Infrastructures of Extraction and Resistance. In N. Estes, & J. Dhillon (Eds.), Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

• Acceptance Date: Apr 30, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Aug 1, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019-08
• Deposit Date: Jul 21, 2019
• Series Title: Indigenous Americas
• Book Title: Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement
• Chapter Number: 29
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0536-1
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1482633
• Publisher URL: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/standing-with-standing-rock