An interest in social justice led Amber Bracken to start photographing the indigenous communities of Alberta, her home province in Canada. She came to see that the history of colonization was a common thread tying together issues experienced by indigenous people, a realization which in turn led Bracken to explore her own family’s settlement on land that once belonged to Native people. When she first heard about people camping in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline—a project designed to transport oil produced by fracking the Bakken shale in North Dakota––she thought at first it was another unremarkable protest. But as hundreds of tribes began gathering from around North America, she recognized the camp as a significant development in Native American history and made four trips there in the next six months. Her work aims to show the struggle for land rights and sovereignty that have long governed the plight for freedom for these communities.