Abstract
This essay examines the soundscape of Standing Rock’s No-DAPL movement by analyzing the aural sites of Sacred Stone and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Camps to comment on the dynamics of coalition building and the embedded politics therein. We delineate the ontological tensions between Native and non-Native peoples in approaches to being and dwelling within our larger environment, contextualizing how such metaphysical dissonances affect the perception and practice of protest. We consider these resultant frictions to be representative of a larger question that underscores the composition, translation, and function of activism – a tension that effectively challenges what resistance should, quite literally, sound like. Turning to a critical review of the ways in which sound has been framed as an affective, rhetorical, and symbolic resource, we encourage scholars and activists to look beyond a politic of representation and instead construct mutually respectful cross-cultural coalitions that attend to diverse sonic variances.
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