OCETI SAKOWIN OYATE (SIOUX NATION), STANDING ROCK RESERVE, AND STANDOFF
Further Reading: Waggoner, Josephine (Hunkpapa, Standing Rock Sioux). 2013. Witness: A Hunkpapa Historian’s Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
INDIGENOUS ACTIVISM AND CONTEMPORARY SOLIDARITY AND STRUGGLE IN NORTH AMERICA
Brusky, Joe. Water is Life. 2 Sept 2016. Flickr. Google. 4 Nov 2016.
The Standing Rock Syllabus is a collection of readings created by NYC Stands with Standing Rock committee, a group of indigenous scholars and activists and supporters based in New York City. More information and the full syllabus (including a preface, glossary of key terms, and PDFs of all content) can be accessed via the links below.
Suggested Citation:
NYC Stands with Standing Rock Collective. 2016. “#StandingRockSyllabus.” https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/
NATIVE REPRESENTATION, POPULAR CULTURE, AND CRITICISM
OCETI SAKOWIN OYATE TERRITORIAL SOVREIGNTY
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND DISPOSSESSION
EDUCATION, SCHOOLING, AND PEDAGOGY
Grande, Sandy (Quechua). 2015. Introduction and Chapter 1, and responses from Tippeconnic III and Goldstein. In Red pedagogy: Native American social and political thought. Rowman & Littlefield:
POLICING NATIONS: SETTLER COLONIALISM, POLICE, AND STATE VIOLENCE
UNITED STATES INDIAN POLICY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND TREATY-MAKING
VISUALIZING RESISTANCE, WATER PROTECTORS
GENDERED VIOLENCE AND SETTLER COLONIALISM
The Beginning and End of Rape by
Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer's work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on--and ending it. The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Deer, who played a crucial role in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse. Deer provides a clear historical overview of rape and sex trafficking in North America, paying particular attention to the gendered legacy of colonialism in tribal nations--a truth largely overlooked or minimized by Native and non-Native observers. She faces this legacy directly, articulating strategies for Native communities and tribal nations seeking redress. In a damning critique of federal law that has accommodated rape by destroying tribal legal systems, she describes how tribal self-determination efforts of the twenty-first century can be leveraged to eradicate violence against women. Her work bridges the gap between Indian law and feminist thinking by explaining how intersectional approaches are vital to addressing the rape of Native women. Grounded in historical, cultural, and legal realities, both Native and non-Native, these essays point to the possibility of actual and positive change in a world where Native women are systematically undervalued, left unprotected, and hurt. Deer draws on her extensive experiences in advocacy and activism to present specific, practical recommendations and plans of action for making the world safer for all.
BASICS OF SETTLER COLONIALISM
GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
RESOURCES, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM
Further Reading
INDIGENOUS HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA
FRACKING, OIL, AND THE ENVIRONMENT