All Our Relations
Native Struggles for Land and Life
Published on 4. June 2021
255 pages
978-1-60846-661-0 (ISBN)
Description
How Native American history can guide us today: "Presents strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos." -
Whole Earth
Written by a former Green Party vice-presidential candidate who was once listed among "America's fifty most promising leaders under forty" by Time magazine, this thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community.
"Moving and often beautiful prose." -Ralph Nader
"Thoroughly researched and convincingly written." - Choice
Written by a former Green Party vice-presidential candidate who was once listed among "America's fifty most promising leaders under forty" by Time magazine, this thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community.
"Moving and often beautiful prose." -Ralph Nader
"Thoroughly researched and convincingly written." - Choice
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Winona LaDuke lives on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota and is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg. She is the Project Director of the Honor the Earth Fund and Campaign Director for the White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, LaDuke was named by Time as one of America's 50 most promising leaders under 40 years of age. In the 1996 presidential campaign, she served as Ralph Nader's running mate in the Green Party. In 1997, with the Indigo Girls, she was named a Ms. Woman of the Year. LaDuke received the Reebok Human Rights Award in 1998.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction
- The Toxic Invasion of Native America
- The Descendants of Little Thunder
- White Earth
- 1. Akwesasne: Mohawk Mothers' Milk and PCBs
- The Mohawk Legacy
- Industry Takes Over
- PCB Contamination at Akwesasne
- The Mothers' Milk Project
- GM Goes Global
- The Great Law of Peace and Good Mind
- 2. Seminoles: At the Heart of the Everglades
- The Seminole Wars
- The Land
- The Animals
- The Reservation and the Village
- The Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc.
- The Independent Traditional Seminole Nation
- The Panther and the Seminoles
- The Panther Reservations
- The People and the Ceremony
- 3. Nitassinan: The Hunter and the Peasant
- The Peasants and the Hunters
- The Military and the Bombs
- Shutting Down the Runway
- The Liberation from Legal Colonialism
- Dams
- James Bay Dams
- Voisey's Bay
- Davis Inlet: The Future for the Environmental Refugees
- Bloodties
- 4. Northern Cheyenne: A Fire in the Coal Fields
- The Beautiful People
- The Indian Wars: Land and Gold
- Dull Knife's Band
- Coming Home to the Coal Fields
- The Northern Cheyenne and AMAX
- Economic Justice and Ethnostress
- Return to High School
- 5. Nuclear Waste: Dumping on the Indians
- The Nevada Test Site and the Western Shoshone
- Pressures Build to Dump on the Indians
- Grassy Narrows
- Resisting the MRS Program
- A Private Initiative in the Goshutes
- Prairie Island
- Yucca Mountain
- The Need for Alternatives
- 6. White Earth: A Lifeway in the Forest
- Gitchimookomaanag, the White Man
- White Earth: The Appropriation of a Homeland
- The Land Struggle Continues
- The White Earth Land Settlement Act
- Extra-Territorial Treaty Rights
- White Earth Land Recovery Project
- Noopiming: In the Woods
- Gaa-Noodin-Oke: The Windmaker
- Noojwiijigamigishkawajig: Finding Neighbors (Friends)
- Minobimaatisiiwin: The Good Life
- 7. Buffalo Nations, Buffalo Peoples
- Buffalo and Prairie Ecosystems
- Land Grabbing and Buffalo Killing
- The Buffalo Are Prairie Makers
- Community Health and Buffalo
- The Wild Herds: Wood Buffalo and Yellowstone
- The Yellowstone Herd
- Healing the Community, Healing the Buffalo Nation
- Buffalo Commons
- Cowboys and Indians One Hundred Years Later
- Pte Oyate: The Buffalo Nation
- Braids of a Grandmother's Hair
- "Bringing Back the Way"
- 8. Hawai'i: The Birth of Land and Its Preservation by the Hands of the People
- The Birth of Land
- The Haole Arrival
- The Militarization of the Pacific
- Kaho'o'lawe
- Endangered Ecosystems and Voyeuristic Vacations
- Birthing a Nation
- Curating a Temple
- 9. NativeSUN: Determining a Future
- The Energy Crisis
- Colonialism and Self-Reliance
- Alternative Energy and the Future
- 10. The Seventh Generation
- Rethinking the Constitution
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- About Honor the Earth
- About South End Press
