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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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"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
Work
Publication
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
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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
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
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"--
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Biography type
individual biography
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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
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Copyright
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
Publication
Copyright
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

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