Crossing Divides
My Journey to Standing Rock
by Vernon Benjamin
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Pub Date Dec 12 2023 | Archive Date Jun 13 2024
Bushwhack Books | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
On Thanksgiving Day in 2016, Vernon Benjamin, aged 70, loaded his pickup with supplies for the protesters at Standing Rock opposed to a new oil pipeline and left his home in upstate New York for a journey across America unlike anything he’d ever done. He cared deeply about Native American causes. But Trump had won the election. The country was falling apart. Benjamin had always been a journalist, a historian, a poet. Now could he be an activist who put his heart and soul on the line? What he found at Standing Rock and in himself changed his life.
Vernon Benjamin was the author of The History of the Hudson River Valley: From Wilderness to the Civil War and The History of the Hudson River Valley: From the Civil War to Modern Times.
A Note From the Publisher
Other contributors include Will Nixon
Advance Praise
“Crossing Divides documents a journey from the Hudson to Standing Rock on the banks of the Missouri River, where Vernon Benjamin delivered supplies to Indigenous protesters opposing construction of an oil pipeline they feared would desecrate and contaminate their ancestral land and waters. Benjamin’s account of his trip into the heart of the Lakota encampment is wrapped in his own personal story – journalist, political leader, academic, friend to New York’s Mohawk Nation, and activist. This is a little book with a big heart.”
--Ned Sullivan, President, Scenic Hudson
"Vernon Benjamin meant a lot to me as a friend, mentor, and devoted citizen of Saugerties. He wrote the definitive history of the Hudson River Valley. Late in life he also wrote this account of his trip to Standing Rock to help protesters trying to stop an oil pipeline. In this book we get the essence of Vernon -- his deep feelings for history and Native Americans, his years of work for the environment, even his self-doubts. Read this book and meet a remarkable man.” --Fred Costello, Saugerties Town Supervisor
"Vernon Benjamin was one of those special people in our community: journalist, public official, historian, supporter of good causes, and friend, especially a friend. Yet at 70 he drove west to the Standing Rock protests. This book is a powerful testament to the fact that we're never too old to fight against injustices. Or to learn new things about ourselves. In not many pages Vernon Benjamin tells a sweeping story about what it means to care about history and all of us caught in these tumultuous times. This is a little gem of a book I won't forget anytime soon.”
--Greg Helsmoortel, former Saugerties Town Supervisor
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780988639881 |
| PRICE | $12.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 64 |
