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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, And A Woman's Search For Justice In Indian Country

by Sierra Crane Murdoch · 2020

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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.…

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"When Sierra Crane Murdoch and Lissa Yellow Bird first met at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, Lissa was knee deep into an investigation of a missing man, an oil worker. Oil had changed the reservation while Lissa had been away from it, and it was the oil boom’s effect that brought Murdoch, a journalist for High Country News, to Fort Berthold. Soon, though, Murdoch turned her own investigation to Lissa herself, and the two became allies, each intent on finding the truth and exposing it, as expansive, complicated, nuanced and multi-layered as it might be."
NPR Books We Love — 2020 · apps.npr.org