Contents
The Toxic Invasion of Native America
The Descendants of Little Thunder
1. Akwesasne: Mohawk Mothers’ Milk and PCBs
PCB Contamination at Akwesasne
The Great Law of Peace and Good Mind
2. Seminoles: At the Heart of the Everglades
The Reservation and the Village
The Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc.
The Independent Traditional Seminole Nation
3. Nitassinan: The Hunter and the Peasant
The Liberation from Legal Colonialism
Davis Inlet: The Future for the Environmental Refugees
4. Northern Cheyenne: A Fire in the Coal Fields
The Indian Wars: Land and Gold
Coming Home to the Coal Fields
The Northern Cheyenne and AMAX
Economic Justice and Ethnostress
5. Nuclear Waste: Dumping on the Indians
The Nevada Test Site and the Western Shoshone
Pressures Build to Dump on the Indians
A Private Initiative in the Goshutes
6. White Earth: A Lifeway in the Forest
Gitchimookomaanag, the White Man
White Earth: The Appropriation of a Homeland
The White Earth Land Settlement Act
Extra-Territorial Treaty Rights
White Earth Land Recovery Project
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
The Wild Herds: Wood Buffalo and Yellowstone
Healing the Community, Healing the Buffalo Nation
Cowboys and Indians One Hundred Years Later
Braids of a Grandmother’s Hair
8. Hawai’i: The Birth of Land and Its Preservation by the Hands of the People
The Militarization of the Pacific
Endangered Ecosystems and Voyeuristic Vacations
9. NativeSUN: Determining a Future