Settler colonialism is a black snake that makes the land uninhabitable: Andrew Rome, ‘Black Snake on the Periphery: The Dakota Access Pipeline and Tribal Jurisdictional Sovereignty’, North Dakota Law Review, 93, 1, 2018, pp. 57-86 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler colonialism is a black snake that makes the land uninhabitable: Andrew Rome, ‘Black Snake on the Periphery: The Dakota Access Pipeline and Tribal Jurisdictional Sovereignty’, North Dakota Law Review, 93, 1, 2018, pp. 57-86

02Mar18

Excerpt: The Lakota had prophesied this: a great and evil black snake would someday descend and reap destruction, rendering their homeland uninhabitable to hunt and fish and their waters unsuitable for religious ceremony. The black snake would disrupt the Lakota’s sacred connection to their land.

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