Yellow Bird. Oil, murder and a woman’s search for justice in Indian Country. Sierra Crane Murdoch. 2020. ISBN 9780399589157. This is why I like to read books by journalists, they can write.\u00a0 The book is seemingly simple, one woman following and journaling the efforts of another to find justice.\u00a0 But it is much more profound. In\u00a0 these pages is likely one of the better illustrations of what it means to be Indian in North America. Plus an indictment of big oil in North Dakota.\u00a0 \u00a0The reader comes to\u00a0 their own judgement in experiencing life along with the book’s characters.\u00a0 The style is simple, and almost pedestrian as you follow the chronology.\u00a0 But in this simplicity comes a slow compulsion to see how it all comes out.\u00a0 Worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is why I like to read books by journalists, they can write.\u00a0 The book is seemingly simple, one woman following and journaling the efforts of another to find justice.\u00a0 But it is much more profound. In\u00a0 these pages is likely one of the better illustrations of what it means to be Indian in North America.\u00a0 Plus an indictment of big oil in North Dakota The reader comes to\u00a0 their own judgement in experiencing life along with the book’s characters.\u00a0 The style is simple, and almost pedestrian as you follow the chronology.\u00a0 But in this simplicity comes a slow compulsion to see how it all comes out.\u00a0 Worth the read.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289],"tags":[3228,3226,3227,3229,3230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9788,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions\/9788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}