Black Snake
Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice

Human Rights Lawyer, Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys, skillfully weaves a powerful story of the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the bravery of protestors at Standing Rock. Black Snake is told through the POV of four remarkable indigenous women who were at the front lines; and their l......more

This is a wonderful, eye-opening account of the fight that is currently underway, on several Sioux reservations in the upper Midwest, against pipelines and fracking that threaten the Natives' land and their way of life. The author of this well-researched book is a human rights lawyer with a strong i......more

It's not the definitive history of the Standing Rock protest but it's an important and interesting contribution to the activist view of it all. Not a lot of attempt to tell the pipeline supporter or business side of it. Neither does it try to get to bottom of some things. For instance, on the subjec......more

This book tells the tale of Native Americans who were trying to keep their water clean so that they could survive. For years, the U.S. government had made promises, in writing, treaties, that they continuously broke. The government promised land to the tribes, only to cancel that promise/treaty when......more

Black Snake is powerfully and effectively written. Katherine Todyrs skillfully takes the reader through a history of the Native American experience in America, while focusing directly on the contemporary experiences of four remarkable, powerful women leading their communities in environmental activi......more