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Using the available anthropology and history of the Indian tribes during their confinement to reservations

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Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands standing rock Using the available anthropology andNative young people and elders pray in sweat lodges at the Octi Sakwin camp, the North Dakota landscape outside blanketed in snow. In Oregon, white men and women in army surplus and western gear, some draped in the American flag, gather in the buildings of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. The world witnessed two standoffs in 2016: the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's protest against an oil pipeline in North Dakota and the armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur