Abstract

Violence against Indigenous individuals and the land is exacerbated by the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Such violence stems from and is sustained by structures of settler colonialism. Analyzing RISE (2017), a documentary television series which followed the Standing Rock occupation, I argue the Water Protectors enacted their inherent sovereignty through strategies of survivance that delinked from settler colonialism and provided gendered relinking to Indigenous knowledges. The Water Protectors’ decolonial talk presented embodied messages of Indigenous survivance that highlighted their agency to resist settler colonialism. By asserting their active decolonial presence, the Water Protectors challenged settler colonial gendered violence, constructing new realities where Indigenous peoples and the earth are decolonized.

摘要

达科他州输油管道 (DAPL) 加剧了针对土著人和土地的暴力行为。这种暴力源于定居者殖民主义的结构并由其维持。分析RISE（2017 年），一部紧随立岩占领之后的纪录片电视连续剧，我认为水保护者通过与定居者殖民主义脱钩的生存战略来制定他们固有的主权，并提供与土著知识的性别重新联系。水保护者的非殖民化演讲展示了土著生存的具体信息，突出了他们抵抗定居者殖民主义的能力。通过主张他们积极的非殖民化存在，水资源保护者挑战了定居者的殖民性别暴力，构建了原住民和地球非殖民化的新现实。