Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country

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Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country

Title remainder

oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country

Statement of responsibility

Sierra Crane Murdoch

Creator

• Murdoch, Sierra Crane

Subject

• Crime
• Criminal investigation -- United States -- Citizen participation
• Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.) -- Social conditions
• Indigenous peoples of North America
• Indigenous peoples of North America -- Native Ameican Territory
• Indigenous peoples of North America -- Native American Territory
• Missing persons -- Investigation -- North Dakota | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
• Clarke, Kristopher
• Native Americans
• Oil industry workers -- North Dakota | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
• Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
• True crime stories
• Yellow Bird, Lissa
• Murder -- North Dakota | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation

Genre

• True crime stories
• Crime

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"--Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

364.152/3092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV6762.U5

LC item number

M78 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography