Blue Like A River: Introduction

An introduction to the book about the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Blue Like A River: Burning the bridge between red and white at Standing Rock was published in the fall of 2017, but is no longer in print. In 2026, the ten-year anniversary of the protest, I decided to run the book serially on my Substack, in the Investigation and News section.

The book was designed for a traditional paper book format, with graphic eleme…