#Sierra Crane Murdoch

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Sierra Crane Murdoch: “What do you want right now?”

“Calm,” I said.

“Calm” was not big enough for a vision quest, she said. “I want you to reach for the sky. Tell me, what do you want?”

What was bigger than being capable of handling anything? I wondered. “I could say I want a house and a garden, but—”

“Why don’t you think you can ask for that?”

I told her I thought a vision quest was about concerns more spiritual than material.

“Nope,” Linda said. “You’ve got to have it all, sweetheart. Honest to God, having a piece of land and a garden—that’s spiritual.”

[Take the Medicine to the White Man :: by Sierra Crane Murdoch

A “Native American Church” without Native Americans]

Harpers Magazine

[rockislandadultreads]

Book Recommendations: More Nonfiction Book Club Picks

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology. With the images of the abandoned homes and playgrounds beyond the barbed wire of the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone, the rusting graveyards of contaminated trucks and helicopters, the farmland lashed with black rain, the event fixed for all time the notion of radiation as an invisible killer.

Chernobyl was also a key event in the destruction of the Soviet Union, and, with it, the United States’ victory in the Cold War. For Moscow, it was a political and financial catastrophe as much as an environmental and scientific one. With a total cost of 18 billion rubles - at the time equivalent to $18 billion - Chernobyl bankrupted an already teetering economy and revealed to its population a state built upon a pillar of lies.

The full story of the events that started that night in the control room of Reactor No.4 of the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant has never been told - until now. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, journalist Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story, including Alexander Akimov and Anatoli Dyatlov, who represented the best and worst of Soviet life; denizens of a vanished world of secret policemen, internal passports, food lines, and heroic self-sacrifice for the Motherland. Midnight in Chernobyl, award-worthy nonfiction that reads like sci-fi, shows not only the final epic struggle of a dying empire but also the story of individual heroism and desperate, ingenious technical improvisation joining forces against a new kind of enemy.

Last Call by Elon Green

The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable.

He looks bland and inconspicuous. Not at all what you think a serial killer looks like. But that’s what he is, and tonight, he has his sights set on a gray haired man. He will not be his first victim. Nor will he be his last.

The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the ‘80s and ‘90s and had all the hallmarks of the most notorious serial killers. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the skyhigh murder rates, and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have been almost entirely forgotten.

This gripping true-crime narrative tells the story of the Last Call Killer and the decades-long chase to find him. And at the same time, it paints a portrait of his victims and a vibrant community navigating threat and resilience.

Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch 

When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her absence, the landscape had been altered beyond recognition, her tribal government swayed by corporate interests, and her community burdened by a surge in violence and addiction. Three years later, when Lissa learned that a young white oil worker, Kristopher "KC" Clarke, had disappeared from his reservation worksite, she became particularly concerned. No one knew where Clarke had gone, and few people were actively looking for him.

Yellow Bird traces Lissa's steps as she obsessively hunts for clues to Clarke's disappearance. She navigates two worlds - that of her own tribe, changed by its newfound wealth, and that of the non-Native oilmen, down on their luck, who have come to find work on the heels of the economic recession. Her pursuit of Clarke is also a pursuit of redemption, as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma.

Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the story of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of the role that loss and discovery play in all of our lives. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and suffering - a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, erudition, and wit about our finite yet infinitely complicated lives. Lost & Found is an enduring account of love in all its many forms from one of the great writers of our time.

[mybookof-you]

"I am even less a nature writer than Barry )Lopez) was, but this is where our work overlapped, in that we each spent much of our adulthood around Indigenous communities. Learning from Indigenous people had conferred on him a certain loneliness, in that he would never belong to nor attempt to belong to the communities he visited, and yet he more often identified with their perspectives and methods of existence than those of European American culture. “You end up on this odd ground where you don’t have many people to talk to,” he told me. "

Sierra Crane Murdoch  

[walaw717]

"violence toward land begets violence toward people, and vice versa, that violence of any kind wounds both victim and perpetrator, heaving across space and time, marking land and bodies, drawing us all into a collective trauma that perpetuates by its own momentum." 

Sierra Crane Murdoch , Barry Lopez, Darkness and Light. The Paris Review, May 31, 2022

[jhave]

Take the Medicine to the White Man, by Sierra Crane Murdoch

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[laceyrowland]

2022 Readings Wrapped Part I

This year I decided to participate in the Ultimate Book Nerd Challenge put on by the Boise Public Library. 50 books in 50 categories in one year.

I completed the challenge in August.

I'm a textbook overachiever.

As of writing this, I've read 77 books in 2022. I'm set to read a couple more by the end of the year, to hopefully end on a nice round number.

For those of you wondering how the heck I did it, here are some of my "secrets" to reading a lot of books:

Audiobooks 100% count as reading. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I listen to them when I walk, when I'm cooking, exercising, and sometimes when I'm doing tasks that don't require a lot of attention at work. Also, roadtrips. I don't recommend audiobooks for short car trips if only because it is hard to follow a plot when you're constantly stopping and starting. If that's something you're into, then go for it.

Graphic novels, comic books, poetry collections, novellas - these also count as books. I like to keep a nice balance of shorties and fat books in my reading practice. It's okay to read little quickies. Reading is reading.

Actually make time for reading. When I put it on my to-do list and made it a priority, I got the reading done. If at first it feels like a chore, keep at it and let your brain be tricked into the habit. It'll eventually kick in, I swear. It also helps to pick something that really grips you. Which brings me to my final tip...

Be ruthless with the 30-page rule. Life is too short to be reading what you feel obligated to read. If you want to read trash, go for it. No one has to know. If you don't want to read The Classics, don't. There are millions of better books out there. Don't let what you "should" read get in the way of what you want to read. If it doesn't blow your hair back in the first 30 pages, don't feel bad for putting it down and maybe never coming back to it. Not every book is written for every person. The book will be read, even if it's not by you. Let it go.

And now, for Part I of The List. Here's what I read January through March of 2022:

The Guide to Superhuman Strength - Alison Bechdel*

Proxima Centauri - Farel Dalrymple

This is How I Disappear - Mirion Malle

How to Read Nature - Tristan Gooley

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender*

New Kid - Jerry Craft*

Redbone - Christian Staebler

Dear Ijeawele - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Undoing Depression - Richard O'Connor*

Intimacies - Katie Kitamura*

Yellow Bird - Sierra Crane Murdoch*

People from My Neighborhood - Hiromi Kawakami

The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K Dick

The Mist - Ragnar Jonasson

Imagine Wanting Only This - Kirsten Radtke*

The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hanh

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi*

The Longer We Were There - Steven Moore*

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nahesi Coates*

Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson

Good Talk - Mira Jacob

Stay tuned for Part II!

*Books that blew my hair back.

[eldora11r]

Read Book Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country PDF -- Sierra Crane Murdoch

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[whilereadingandwalking]

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch is a fascinating true crime story about Lissa Yellow Bird's quest to find out what happened to a young white oil worker who had mysteriously vanished. Murdoch captures the idiosyncrasies and incredible life story and passions of Lissa, while framing the narrative amidst a context of intergenerational trauma and the history of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. KC Clarke disappeared in the middle of the Bakken oil boom, which brought money as well as crime, drugs, contamination, and violence into the reservation. 

Murdoch's narration is thoughtful and well-plotted. In her author's note, she says that she included herself consciously in the story to make it clear where she came from, to make it clear that this story was being told from the perspective of a white woman from outside the reservation and area. That's the key word I would give her account: honest. She tells us her impressions of Lissa, tells us how information came her way, muses on how much she and Lissa trusted one another. She captures the bold, chaotic way that Lissa doggedly throws her way into the case—captures Lissa's resilience, her skill, her intelligence, while noting what she couldn't quite get at with Lissa, the small things that occasionally changed her perceptions. 

Murdoch's writing is superb, and she tells a story of pain, trauma, addiction, and murder in a way that is both direct and takes care to include deep dives into the real people the story involves, and the histories that surround the main timeline. While I sometimes got confused on reentry to the primary storyline of KC Clarke's disappearance after a divergence into history or a swerve into explaining a certain character, it always came together. Lissa Yellow Bird is a complicated and incredible woman, and her story of investigation is full of twists, surprises, intimidation, plotting, corruption, mystery—and hope.

[bigtickhk]

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch https://amzn.to/2Vy4AtG

[mybookof-you]

"I began reading Barry’s (Lopez) books, and I noticed how violence and beauty cohabitated in all his work. In Of Wolves and Men, he wrote of both the admiration and hatred humans have for wolves, the former rooted in a longing for intimacy with nature even as humans grow more distant from it; the latter, in a species of fear called theriophobia—“fear of the projected beast in oneself,” or, as Barry saw it, fear of the darkness we all possess."

Sierra Crane Murdoch

[meduseld]

Tag 9 people you want to know better

Tagged by @avi17 (thank you this was fun!)

favorite color: Marian blue, mainly because it looks so pretty in paintings and it makes me think of the sky when night is near. So I love it.

currently reading: Yellow Bird by Sierra Crane Murdoch and The Lost Village by Camilla Sten because I need to balance out real life horrors with much more manageable fictional horrors.

last song: Damn These Vampires by The Mountain Goats because they make me feel things.

last series: Uh, does the Fear Street Trilogy count? If not Bad Movies and a Beat by Kennie JD on Youtube (she’s hilarious)

last movie: Pig. I went yesterday and it was the sort of drama I’d missed, where it’s just life and what people make of it even amidst tragedy. Seriously, it’s pretty good.

sweet, savory, or spicy: Probably sweet, I’ve always had a sweet tooth but I like them all.

craving: My mom’s ajiaco...........

tea or coffee: Tea. I have like. 10 different kinds in my pantry rn.

currently working on: Lots of things, as always, but for once I have three drafts past the first iteration: one for 911 bingo, one LiuLao and one for Fear Street and everyone’s favorite problem pairing.

 Tagging: Only if you want, naturally; @warrenkoles @firlachiel @jacksonmaine @johnbroutledge @datleggy @tulipintulle and whoever else wants to

[cheshirelibrary]

11 Books Like Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries

[via Bustle]

Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries reboot has the whole world talking — and the whole Internet working together to solve some of its toughest crimes. If you've finished marathon-watching the show, but still want more of the gritty true crime the series has to offer, pick up one of these books like Unsolved Mysteries to read while you wait on season 2.

You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce

The Last Flight by Julie Clark

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg 

We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin

The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl

Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang

The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica

The Golden Cage by Camilla Läckberg

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

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Click through to see more titles.

[feywildfiction]

My Most Anticipated Reads of 2020 (January - June)

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain

Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories of the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston

The Iron Will of Genie Lo (The Epic Crush of Genie Lo #2) by F.C. Yee

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

These Ghosts are Family by Maisy Card

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan

It’s Not About the Burqa by Mariam Khan

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan

You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #3) by Seth Dickinson

The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy #3) by S.A. Chakraborty

[jdpink]

Many attendees, Tyler included, consider themselves part of what’s become known as the American Redoubt, a loosely defined group of preppers, libertarians, and conservative Christians who have moved to the thinly populated areas of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Oregon, and Washington.

White middle-class people. Religious people. And lots of retired police officers. As Sierra Crane-Murdoch notes in her history of right-wing immigration to the area, people moved based on word of mouth: Whole evangelical ministries came en masse; one man told the Coeur d’Alene Press that he’d convinced half of his Orange County neighborhood to relocate. Over 500 California police officers, including the infamous O.J. Simpson detective Mark Fuhrman, moved here by the end of the ’90s. Today, that number has multiplied to the point that some call it “LAPD North.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/wackadoodles-north-idaho