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8. We Came to Fight a Black Snake

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This chapter examines a modern cultural clash over the construction of a crude oil pipeline on traditional Native American homelands in 2016 and 2017. The Dakota Access Pipeline snakes 1172 miles across four states and produces 570,000 barrels (23,940,000 gallons) each day. At today’s market price of 59.58 US dollars per barrel, that’s just short of 34 million US dollars per day. Critics charge that the pipeline represents a flagrant act of environmental racism, particularly in light that the course of the pipeline was redirected to skirt around the city of Bismarck’s water supply and instead run underneath the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s water source: Lake Oahe. This chapter explores scholarship on media coverage about protests over the pipeline.

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Title
We Came to Fight a Black Snake
Author
Cynthia-Lou Coleman
Copyright Year
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34106-0_8
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