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Anaġoptaŋ Po! (Listen!) What We Can Learn About Our Own Stories By Accepting The Stories Of Others: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Competing Narratives Within The Dakota Access Pipeline Conflict, Scot Zellmer

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There have been over five-hundred years of interactions between European Colonizer-settlers and the Indigenous peoples of North America. Starting with the 1493 Doctrine of Discovery through the present, language embedded in documents, laws, policies and popular culture, have created damaging and misleading stereotypes and identities for these Indigenous Peoples, the American Indians. This study connects historical and contemporary perceptions constructing the dominant narrative that informs many people about American Indians. Narrative Paradigm Theory, Critical Race Theory and Indigenous Theories all serve as a lens to deconstruct the legitimacy of the dominant narrative and promote the salience of counter-narratives constructed by …