Contextualizing Native Resistance: Precedents for the Movement Against the Dakota Access Pipeline

Publication Date

5-1-2017

Authors

Grace Dietz, University of New Hampshire, Durham

Abstract

In 2016, news of the Standing Rock resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline swept through the social media sphere. Although many young people had never seen anything like it, this article shows that the “water protectors” are part of a long tradition of Indigenous resistance on the North American plains.

Recommended Citation

Dietz, Grace (2017) "Contextualizing Native Resistance: Precedents for the Movement Against the Dakota Access Pipeline," Spectrum: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholars.unh.edu/spectrum/vol6/iss1/3