Water Occupation and the Ecology of Arab American Literature

Abstract

Settler colonial states have long referred to indigenous protestors as terrorists and treated them as combatants. As the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe continues to defend their water and land against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, militarized police forces have attacked water protectors with mace, rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons, all familiar forms of state violence for Palestinians.¹ The United Nations calls the water, sanitation, and hygiene situation in the Gaza Strip unsustainable, and the World Bank reports that ninety...