A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector Van Fossan Karen
A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector Van Fossan Karen A firsthand account of two colonial pipelines and their resistance: the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing…
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A Fire at the Center: Solidarity, Whiteness, and Becoming a Water Protector Van Fossan Karen
A firsthand account of two colonial pipelines and their resistance: the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock and the Line 3 pipeline on Anishinaabe lands.This is a story of becoming and un-becoming. When another pipeline, Line 3, came to threaten Anishinaabe ways of life, the question became even more resounding.In A Fire at the Center, Van Fossan takes readers behind the scenes of the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict, to penitentiaries where prisoners of war have carried the movement onward, to the jail cell where she was held for protesting Line 3, to a reimagining of decolonized When the living waters that crisscrossed the Standing Rock reservation came under threat, minister of the nearby Unitarian Universalist congregation Karen Van Fossan asked herself what it means, as a descendent of colonialism, to resist her own colonial culture.