Standing Rock’s Landscape of Liberation: Exploding Landscapes, Geographies, and Histories Towards New Futures

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Abstract: This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in first-year classes that satisfy the WR 1 requirement. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style.
This essay analyzes the art produced by the water protectors at the Standing Rock protest and identifies three transformative effects of the art at Standing Rock. Art remade the land of Standing Rock and its protest camp from a landscape of battle to one of liberation. In doing so, it transformed a confined colonial geography into a
new global geography based on indigenous Lakota land ethic. Lastly, art brought together past and future, effectively telescoping time, to assert control of the history and write a new story of the land.

Type of resource	text
Publication date	June 1, 2024; 2023

Author	Colloredo-Mansfeld, Zoe

Subject	College students' writings, Standing Rock, public protest, protest art, environmental protection
Genre	Text
Genre	Essay
Genre	Essays

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/cn616sh2473, https://doi.org/10.25740/cn616sh2473
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/cn616sh2473

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Preferred citation: Colloredo-Mansfeld, Z. (2024). Standing Rock’s Landscape of Liberation: Exploding Landscapes, Geographies, and Histories Towards New Futures. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/cn616sh2473. https://doi.org/10.25740/cn616sh2473.

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