Yellow bird : oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country / Sierra Crane Murdoch.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Random House, 2021Copyright date: ©2020Edition: Random House trade paperback editionDescription: 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:- text
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- 0399589171
- 9780399589171 :
- Oil, murder, and a woman's search for justice in Indian country
- Yellow Bird, Lissa
- Clarke, Kristopher
- Missing persons -- Investigation -- North Dakota -- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- Murder -- North Dakota -- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- Criminal investigation -- United States -- Citizen participation
- Oil industry workers -- North Dakota -- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
- Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota
- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.) -- Social conditions
- 364.152/3092 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Adult Book | Phillipsburg Free Public Library | Adult Non-Fiction | New Books | 364.152 MUR | Available | pap ed. | 36748002528364 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * 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 Days
In development as a Paramount+ original series
WINNER OF THE OREGON BOOK AWARD * NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * NPR * Publishers Weekly
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 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-375).
The brightest Yellow Bird -- Missing -- Oil kings -- The great mystery -- What good is money if you end up in hell -- The flyer -- The church -- What she broke -- Sarah -- The search -- The gunman -- Confessions -- Us against the world -- The Badlands -- Trial -- The body -- Shauna -- What they say we loved.
"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.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Map of North Dakota and Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (p. 3)
- Prologue: Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota (p. 5)
- Part I Boom
- 1 The Brightest Yellow Bird (p. 9)
- 2 Missing (p. 39)
- 3 Oil Kings (p. 61)
- 4 The Great Mystery (p. 79)
- 5 What Good Is Money if You End Up in Hell (p. 109)
- 6 The Flyer (p. 131)
- 7 The Church (p. 148)
- 8 What She Broke (p. 160)
- 9 Sarah (p. 176)
- 10 The Search (p. 188)
- 11 The Gunman (p. 209)
- 12 Confessions (p. 224)
- Part II Bust
- 13 Us Against the World (p. 251)
- 14 The Badlands (p. 283)
- 15 Trial (p. 304)
- 16 The Body (p. 325)
- 17 Shauna (p. 332)
- 18 What They Say We Loved (p. 346)
- Author's Note (p. 363)
- Works Consulted (p. 373)
- Acknowledgments (p. 377)