"It is 2016, and the weight of American corporate interests has come to the Missouri River, the Mother River. This time, instead of the Seventh Cavalry, or the Indian police dispatched to assassinate Sitting Bull, it is Enbridge Corporation and Dakota Access Pipeline, emboldened by a new militarization of Indian Country. At their beck and call have been 1300 highly militarized police, private security forces of the mercenary variety and the National Guard. It is a time not unknown to Native people, a time when the interests of corporations--whether the Hearst Empire, or a pipeline company--are able to deploy the military for their benefit. This book tells that larger story. This new preface speaks to the carrying out of the militarization of Indian Country in Lakota territory"--Back cover