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The Resource Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country, Sierra Crane Murdoch

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

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The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it--an urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch."--William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian DaysNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY Chicago Tribune • BuzzFeed • Newsweek • PopSugar • Pure Wow • LitHub • CrimeReads • The Week • Book RiotWhen 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 few people were actively looking for him. 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 oilmen, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is 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. Drawing on eight years of immersive investigation, Sierra Crane Murdoch has produced a profound examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing
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Unabridged.
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Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country
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Yellow Bird
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oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country
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Sierra Crane Murdoch
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The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it--an urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than Sierra Crane Murdoch."--William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian DaysNAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY Chicago Tribune • BuzzFeed • Newsweek • PopSugar • Pure Wow • LitHub • CrimeReads • The Week • Book RiotWhen 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 few people were actively looking for him. 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 oilmen, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma. Yellow Bird is 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. Drawing on eight years of immersive investigation, Sierra Crane Murdoch has produced a profound examination of the legacy of systematic violence inflicted on a tribal nation and a tale of extraordinary healing
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Murdoch, Sierra Crane
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  • Yellow Bird, Lissa
  • Clarke, Kristopher
  • Missing persons
  • Murder
  • Criminal investigation
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  • Missing persons
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  • Oil industry workers
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  • Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
  • Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.)
  • North Dakota
  • United States
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Yellow Bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country, Sierra Crane Murdoch
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