The book includes a series of poems

tender and hopeful story of his fight to rediscover and accept himself in the face of a heritage with diametrically opposed backgrounds

" - Louise Erdrich

and histories as enrichments of Native literature

" said the fox

Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands coyote The book includes a seriesNative young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Octi Sakwin camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur