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Native Struggles for Land and Life

While many today recognize vital land and resources have been stolen from Indigenous peoples, that concept of theft is often confined to the crimes of early settlers. Winona LaDuke chronicles so clearly how the breaking of treaties, destruction of key ecosystems, dumping of waste on Indigenous commu......more

"The lesson is that the war on nature is a war on the psyche, a war on the soul. It is seen in the faces on Pine Ridge. It is seen in the monocropped field awash with chemicals and in the blood of a slaughtered Yellowstone calf. Healing in buffalo cultures must be multi-dimensional. It is not enough......more

"Public policy is lagging far behind our ability to destroy ourselves." So says Winona LaDuke in her book detailing Indigenous peoples' history, especially in connection with the colonizers' assault on the environment. The book was published in 1999 so many of the facts and figures are outdated but t......more

An excellent if slightly textbooky overview of Indigenous struggles in North America in the past fifty years or so to preserve traditional lifeways and national sovereignty in the face of capitalism, colonialism, and environmental degradation. Unfortunately it offers only reformist solutions to thes......more

"The challenge... is to transform human laws to match natural laws, not vice versa. And to correspondingly transform wasteful production and voracious consumption. America and industrial society must move from a society based on conquest to one steeped in the practice of survival" (197).......more