Contents

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

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