Yellow Earth
(Book)
Author
Published
Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Sayles, J
1 available
Fiction Sayles, J
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Southside - Adult
Fiction Sayles, J
1 available
Fiction Sayles, J
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Oliver La Farge - Adult | Fiction Sayles, J | Checked Out | May 21, 2024 |
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Published
Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2020.
Language
English
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Description
When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists -- along with an earnest wildlife biologist -- commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of neighboring Three Nations reservation, wants to increase economic opportunity but faces opposition for extolling "sovereignty by the barrel." From casino dealers and geologists to Native activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom.
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