Category:Native Americans
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History
Charles Mann, author of 1491(book exploration on how Native Americans used the land) has also written about interactions between colonists and Native peoples. Mann, the author of 1491 (Amazon link), talks about the thriving and sophisticated Indian landscape of the pre-Columbus Americas 2002 interview
Another account of megafauna extinctions
California Indians and Their Environment by Kent G. Lightfoot and Otis Parrish. Capturing the vitality of California's unique indigenous cultures, this major new introduction incorporates the extensive research of the past thirty years into an illuminating, comprehensive synthesis for a wide audience. Based in part on new archaeological findings, it tells how the California Indians lived in vibrant polities, each boasting a rich village life including chiefs, religious specialists, master craftspeople, dances, feasts, and ceremonies. Throughout, the book emphasizes how these diverse communities interacted with the state's varied landscape, enhancing its already bountiful natural resources through various practices centered around prescribed burning. A handy reference section, illustrated with more than one hundred color photographs, describes the plants, animals, and minerals the California Indians used for food, basketry and cordage, medicine, and more. At a time when we are grappling with the problems of maintaining habitat diversity and sustainable economies, we find that these native peoples and their traditions have much to teach us about the future, as well as the past, of California.
Prehistoric California: Archaeology and the Myth of Paradise, University of Utah Press, 2004 Terry L. Jones, Oakes '78
The Ohlone Way , Margolin, Malcolm, book about Spanish and Indian contact
Current
Indigenous Environmental Network
CNIE updated 2002?
Yahoo list of Native Amertican eco orgs
Winona LaDuke Native American activist. article on native rice and GMO's.
Oren Lyons Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and a proud and accomplished Native American who works tirelessly towards the issues concerning Indigenous peoples in the United States and the world. He is a member of the Seneca Nation and of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Rigoberta Menchu won the Nobel Proze for her efforts on behalf of Indigenous people in Guatemala.
Terry Freitas, UCSC grad student killed trying to stop Indigenous people from being harmed by oil company. Ana Maria Murillo served as Executive Director for the U’wa Defense Project, founded by Terry Freitas, UCSC alum killed in Columbia. Ana is of Indigenous Colombian ancestry and has worked for twelve years with Native communities in the U.S. and Latin America, primarily in Indigenous-led community development, cultural survival and women’s rights. Ana currently serves on the board of Amazon Watch and also volunteers as Co-Director for the Mujer U’wa Initiative; a giving circle supporting Indigenous U’wa women in the jungles of Colombia to build female leadership, resist destructive petroleum extraction and contribute to peace building amid a war zone in their sacred land.
Navajo Nation Pushes for Uranium Cleanup. May 30, 2008 · Despite the lure of potentially big money, the Navajo Nation has banned uranium mining on its reservation, which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. In part, the decision reflects deep Navajo concerns about how past mining activities have damaged health and the environment.
Books
In the Empire of Ice: Encounters in a Changing Landscape by Gretel Ehrlich. "In this gripping circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle, Gretel Ehrlich paints a vivid portrait of the indigenous cultures that inhabit the starkly beautiful boreal landscape surrounding the Arctic Ocean..."More
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles F. Wilkinson
Rebecca Solnit’s 1994 Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West was published. Part travelogue, part historical synopsis, and part meditative landscape contemplation, the book explores a present in which the nuclear wars that were supposed to be in the future and the Indian Wars that were supposed to be in the past are both going on in the present.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen "A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indian concept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents new evidence supporting Peltier's claims of innocence, arguing for a new trial."
Essays/Literature
N. Scott Momaday's The Man Made of Words (excerpts)
Leslie M. Silko's Gardens in the Dunes (excerpts)
Poetry
Video
The Buffalo War / produced by Buffalo Jump Pictures ; a film by Matthew Testa Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c2001 Media Center - VT9116
Summary: The moving story of the Native Americans, ranchers, government officials, and environmental activists currently battling over the yearly slaughter of America's last wild bison. This film explores the controversial killing by joining a 500-mile spiritual march across Montana by Lakota Sioux Indians who object to the slaughter. Woven into the film are the civil disobedience and video activism of an environmental group trying to save the buffalo, as well as the concerns of a ranching family caught in the crossfire.
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