All Our Relations

by LaDuke, Winona

• ISBN13: 9780896085992
• ISBN10: 0896085996
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: South End Pr

Summary

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 community. Hers is a beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological transformation. All Our Relations features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others."One of the pleasures of reading All Our Relations is discovering the unique voices of Native people, especially Native women, speaking in their own Native truths."-Women's Review of Books"...as Winona LaDuke describes, in moving and often beautiful prose, [these] misdeeds are not distant history but are ongoing degradation of the cherished lands of Native Americans."-Public Citizen News"...a rare perspective on Native history and culture."-Sister to Sister/S2S"Hers is a beautiful and daring vision of political, spiritual, and ecological transformation. All Our Relations is essential reading for everyone who cares about the fate of the Earth and indigenous peoples."-Winds of Change"No ragtag remnants of lost cultures here. Strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos."-Whole Earth

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(203)
The Toxic Invasion of Native America
The Descendants of Little Thunder
White Earth
Akwesasne: Mohawk Mothers' Milk and PCBs	11	(16)
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
Seminoles: At the Heart of the Everglades	27	(22)
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
Nitassinan: The Hunter and the Peasant	49	(26)
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
Northern Cheyenne: A Fire in the Coal Fields	75	(22)
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
Nuclear Waste: Dumping on the Indians	97	(18)
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
White Earth: A Lifeway in the Forest	115	(24)
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
Buffalo Nations, Buffalo Peoples	139	(28)
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''
Hawai'i: The Birth of Land and Its Preservation by the Hands of the People	167	(20)
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
Native SUN: Determining a Future	187	(10)
The Energy Crisis
Colonialism and Self-Reliance
Alternative Energy and the Future
The Seventh Generation	197	(7)
Rethinking the Constitution
Notes	204	(24)
Index	228	(14)
About the Author	242	(1)
About Honor the Earth	243	(1)
About South End Press	244