Mike Simpson is a visiting Fulbright scholar at the University of Minnesota researching pipeline conflicts in North America.
Lessons from the Front Lines of Anti-Colonial Pipeline Resistance
The Standing Rock standoff over the Dakota Access Pipeline was a reminder that colonization, and resistance to it, both exist in the present tense. Fossil fuel pipelines that despoil indigenous lands and waters have become key flashpoints in long-standing anti-colonial resistance. An important precursor and inspiration for the Standing Rock camp is an indigenous occupation in northern British Columbia, Canada.
October 17, 2017