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Neil Gaiman and the Pipeline Protests

By Robin Bates | Published: December 12, 2016

In “American Gods,” Neil Gaiman warns that Americans are doomed if we don’t make spiritual connection with the land. The protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline are making the same argument.

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Massacring the Environment Dakota Style

By Robin Bates | Published: December 4, 2016

With a North Dakota winter bearing down on those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, I see a convergence of images that also show up in Lucille Clifton’s poem “the killing of the trees”: environmental degradation, oppression of Native Americans, and frozen bodies.

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