The Resource Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country, Sierra Crane Murdoch
Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country, Sierra Crane Murdoch
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- Summary
- "When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone, and no one but his mother was actively looking for him. Unfolding like a gritty mystery, Yellow Bird traces Lissa's steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke's disappearance. She navigates two worlds -- that of her own tribe, changed by its newfound wealth, and that of the non-Native oil workers, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit becomes an effort at redemption -- an atonement for her own crimes and a reckoning with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is both an exquisitely written, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart, funny, eloquent, compassionate, and -- when it serves her cause -- manipulative. Ultimately, it is a deep examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 379 pages
- Contents
-
- The brightest Yellow Bird
- Missing
- Oil kings
- The great mystery
- What good is money if you end up in hell
- The flyer
- The church
- What she broke
- Sarah
- The search
- The gunman
- Confessions
- Us against the world
- The Badlands
- Trial
- The body
- Shauna
- What they say we loved
- Isbn
- 9780399589157
- Label
- Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country
- Title
- Yellow Bird
- Title remainder
- oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country
- Statement of responsibility
- Sierra Crane Murdoch
- Subject
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- Criminal investigation -- Citizen participation
- Criminal investigation -- United States -- Citizen participation
- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.) -- Social conditions
- Missing persons -- Investigation
- Missing persons -- Investigation -- North Dakota | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- Murder -- North Dakota | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- North Dakota -- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- Oil industry workers
- Oil industry workers -- North Dakota | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- Clarke, Kristopher
- Social conditions
- Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
- Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
- True crime stories
- United States
- Yellow Bird, Lissa
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- Crime
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher 'KC' Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone, and no one but his mother was actively looking for him. Unfolding like a gritty mystery, Yellow Bird traces Lissa's steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke's disappearance. She navigates two worlds -- that of her own tribe, changed by its newfound wealth, and that of the non-Native oil workers, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit becomes an effort at redemption -- an atonement for her own crimes and a reckoning with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is both an exquisitely written, masterfully reported story about a search for justice and a remarkable portrait of a complex woman who is smart, funny, eloquent, compassionate, and -- when it serves her cause -- manipulative. Ultimately, it is a deep examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Murdoch, Sierra Crane
- Dewey number
- 364.152/3092
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Yellow Bird, Lissa
- Clarke, Kristopher
- Missing persons
- Murder
- Criminal investigation
- Oil industry workers
- Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- Criminal investigation
- Missing persons
- Oil industry workers
- Social conditions
- North Dakota
- Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
- United States
- Label
- Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country, Sierra Crane Murdoch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-375)
- Contents
- The brightest Yellow Bird -- Missing -- Oil kings -- The great mystery -- What good is money if you end up in hell -- The flyer -- The church -- What she broke -- Sarah -- The search -- The gunman -- Confessions -- Us against the world -- The Badlands -- Trial -- The body -- Shauna -- What they say we loved
- Control code
- on1102796143
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 379 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399589157
- Lccn
- 2019022833
- Other physical details
- illustration, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1102796143
- Label
- Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country, Sierra Crane Murdoch
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-375)
- Contents
- The brightest Yellow Bird -- Missing -- Oil kings -- The great mystery -- What good is money if you end up in hell -- The flyer -- The church -- What she broke -- Sarah -- The search -- The gunman -- Confessions -- Us against the world -- The Badlands -- Trial -- The body -- Shauna -- What they say we loved
- Control code
- on1102796143
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 379 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399589157
- Lccn
- 2019022833
- Other physical details
- illustration, map
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1102796143
Subject
- Criminal investigation -- Citizen participation
- Criminal investigation -- United States -- Citizen participation
- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.) -- Social conditions
- Missing persons -- Investigation
- Missing persons -- Investigation -- North Dakota | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- Murder -- North Dakota | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- North Dakota -- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- Oil industry workers
- Oil industry workers -- North Dakota | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- Clarke, Kristopher
- Social conditions
- Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
- Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
- True crime stories
- United States
- Yellow Bird, Lissa
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
- Crime
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