kateniedfeldt 's review for:

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

3.0

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This book is not really as it is advertised. I felt like it was really three stories centered around one woman. The murder of Kristopher Clarke seems almost like a side note. This is really a biographical story of a Native American woman named Lissa, who is obsessed with finding Kristopher. It is also about the history of the devastation of her tribe because of the creation of a dam on the Missouri River in the 1950s, which eventually leads to the destruction wrought by the oil boom of the early 2000s. And the story of Lissa who had done time in prison and had struggled with drug addiction and how her life has been affected by life straddling the reservation and the white world.