All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation.\ LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience, and her analysis is deepened with inspiring testimonies by local Native activists sharing the struggle for survival.\ On each page of this volume, LaDuke speaks forcefully for self-determination and...
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A beautiful and daring vision of spiritual and environmental transformation from our country's leading Native environmental leader. Colorlines - Ralph Nader A thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation. Acclaimed Native activist LaDuke chronicles the efforts of movements to overcome racism and poverty and to establish communities on indigenous people's terms. A brilliant, gripping narrative.
Introduction1The Toxic Invasion of Native AmericaThe Descendants of Little ThunderWhite Earth1.Akwesasne: Mohawk Mothers' Milk and PCBs11The Mohawk LegacyIndustry Takes OverPCB Contamination at AkwesasneThe Mothers' Milk ProjectGM Goes GlobalThe Great Law of Peace and Good Mind2.Seminoles: At the Heart of the Everglades27The Seminole WarsThe LandThe AnimalsThe Reservation and the VillageThe Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc.The Independent Traditional Seminole NationThe Panther and the SeminolesThe Panther ReservationsThe People and the Ceremony3.Nitassinan: The Hunter and the Peasant49The Peasants and the HuntersThe Military and the BombsShutting Down the RunwayThe Liberation from Legal ColonialismDamsJames Bay DamsVoisey's BayDavis Inlet: The Future for the Environmental RefugeesBloodties4.Northern Cheyenne: A Fire in the Coal Fields75The Beautiful PeopleThe Indian Wars: Land and GoldDull Knife's BandComing Home to the Coal FieldsThe Northern Cheyenne and AMAXEconomic Justice and EthnostressReturn to High School5.Nuclear Waste: Dumping on the Indians97The Nevada Test Site and the Western ShoshonePressures Build to Dump on the IndiansGrassy NarrowsResisting the MRS ProgramA Private Initiative in the GoshutesPrairie IslandYucca MountainThe Need for Alternatives6.White Earth: A Lifeway in the Forest115Gitchimookomaanag, the White ManWhite Earth: The Appropriation of a HomelandThe Land Struggle ContinuesThe White Earth Land Settlement ActExtra-Territorial Treaty RightsWhite Earth Land Recovery ProjectNoopiming: In the WoodsGaa-Noodin-Oke: The WindmakerNoojwiijigamigishkawajig: Finding Neighbors (Friends)Minobimaatisiiwin: The Good Life7.Buffalo Nations, Buffalo Peoples139Buffalo and Prairie EcosystemsLand Grabbing and Buffalo KillingThe Buffalo Are Prairie MakersCommunity Health and BuffaloThe Wild Herds: Wood Buffalo and YellowstoneThe Yellowstone HerdHealing the Community, Healing the Buffalo NationBuffalo CommonsCowboys and Indians One Hundred Years LaterPte Oyate: The Buffalo NationBraids of a Grandmother's Hair"Bringing Back the Way"8.Hawai'i: The Birth of Land and Its Preservation by the Hands of the People167The Birth of LandThe Haole ArrivalThe Militarization of the PacificKaho'o'laweEndangered Ecosystems and Voyeuristic VacationsBirthing a NationCurating a Temple9.Native SUN: Determining a Future187The Energy CrisisColonialism and Self-RelianceAlternative Energy and the Future10.The Seventh Generation197Rethinking the ConstitutionNotes204Index228About the Author242About Honor the Earth243About South End Press244
\ Ralph NaderA thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation. Acclaimed Native activist LaDuke chronicles the efforts of movements to overcome racism and poverty and to establish communities on indigenous people's terms. A brilliant, gripping narrative. \ — Colorlines\ \
