From Standing Rock to Minnesota: Indigenous Resistance and ICE

About this episode

Dallas Goldtooth and Mark K. Tilsen Jr. discuss their experiences at the Standing Rock protests and the ongoing fight for Indigenous rights.

For the first episode of this special guest-hosted series, Dallas Goldtooth welcomes Mark K. Tilsen Jr. a poet, educator, and longtime organizer from Pine Ridge whose work is rooted in resistance and liberation. Dallas and Mark reflect on their shared experiences at the Standing Rock protests, marking a decade since thousands of Indigenous water protectors gathered to defend land, water, and sovereignty against the Dakota Access Pipeline. What came out of that effort was not only the largest ...

People in this episode

Host: Dallas Goldtooth

Guest: Mark K. Tilsen Jr.

Topics covered

• Indigenous resistance
• Standing Rock
• water protectors
• Dakota Access Pipeline
• liberation
• organizing

Keywords

• Indigenous
• resistance
• Standing Rock
• water protectors
• Dakota Access Pipeline
• liberation
• organizer

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Dakota Access Pipeline

Places: Pine Ridge

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