In front of her were the the authorities and the power. It is one lone person trying to hold back the pipeline, the black snake. One of the essential principles was the need to stay peaceful even though they were going up against awful forces. What is the significance of that gesture? With all her people gathered behind her, she holds the feather up in a gesture also seen in pictures of other Native activists. And a warrior is never a bad thing! I see a warrior as a protector. The youth organized a run from Standing Rock to Washington, D.C., to bring awareness to the situation. It wasn’t just grownups fighting for clean water. Lindstrom: The camp at Standing Rock was a youth-led movement. Can you talk about what was behind the decision to make her a child? The girl who stars in the story, the leader, the warrior-maybe that’s not the right word-she is very young.
It’s very important to let the illustrator have room to let their imaginations go, so having words that are slightly lyrical was the perfect way to write the story.
I like the reader’s imagination to conjure the details. So I waited, and then a couple of days later, I sat down and wrote it just the way it is now. I’m not sure I can.” And she said, “Well, give it a couple of days.” She knows what works best for me. When I showed it to my agent, she said, “Could you think about maybe making it more lyrical?” And I said, “I don’t know if I can do that. It started as a novel, but it needed to be told quickly, faster. I had written a picture book before, in 2013, and I thought, okay, well maybe I could contribute that way. I really wanted to be there, but I had family issues. My tribe is also in North Dakota, north of Standing Rock.
Lindstrom: I heard about the camp at Standing Rock in the summer of 2016.
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