this is olowan martinez. she was speaking to democracy now! would we were covering the standoff at standing rock. >> it is a small town on the edge or the border of south dakota and nebraska. it is quarter liquor stores, -- yes, liquor stores, you could call them. they make $4 billion in your just basically off the misery and suffering of my people who are struggling without all and alcoholism -- alcohol and ocalan's him. amy: so it is sort of a town of liquor stores that sell to people on the pine ridge reservation? >> yes, the majority of the our call they sell comes from preserve or cap 344 and it is basically a very severe infection amongst our nation and some idea when we first heard fighting white clay was to heal the wound. amy: that is olowan martinez. she's been held for over a week on her protest. on wednesday, oglala lakota land defenders also disrupted the north dakota petroleum council conference in minot. they took over t stage while department of mineral resources director lynn helms was speaking, demanding an end to the constru

meanwhile, in north dakota, lakota land defender olowan martinez was freed thursday. , she'd been held for more than a week after she locked herself to a piece of heavy machinery to stop construction of the $3.8 billion dakota access pipeline on septemberer 13. this is martinez speaking to democracy now! when we were in north dakota. >so how long do you plan to stay here? >> until we know for sure that this black snake is dead. amy: your t-shirt says "red warrior camp" and it has a fist. >> yes. i believe it speaks the spirituality and the mentality of everyone here within red warrior camp. we are a camp of great mindset of come together to kill this black snake by any means necessary. amy: and the award-winning and best-selling poet claudia rankine has won this year's macarthur genius grant. rankine is best known for her 2014 book "citizen," an exploration of race that new yorker reviewer hilton als described as -- "the best note in the wrong song that is america. its various realities -- 'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life -- are almost too