Category:Native Americans
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History
Charles Mann, author of 1491(book exploration on how Native Americans used the land)(excerpt) 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 (text). Charles C. Mann (1491) discusses the voyage of Christopher Columbus and the birth of globalization in terms of world trade and ecological collision. (audio). 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created is a nonfiction book by Charles C. Mann first published in 2011.[1] It covers the global effects of the Columbian Exchange, following Columbus's first landing in the Americas, that lead to our current globalized world civilization.
Here's how white colonizers set us up for uncontrollable wildfires 11/18.
Louis S. Warren's book “God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America,” which describes the pan-Indian religious movement that swept across the west and the great plain as a form of resistance and reconciliation to colonialism. audio interview 4/17. ***
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson.
Another account of megafauna extinctions
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne
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 (video interview).
Bad Indians: a Tribal Memoir 2013 by Deborah A. Miranda Reserves McH Desk E78.C15 M6 2013 CA missions, Treatment of CA Indians.
Insurrection and resistance are as much a part of the history of these lands as dispossession and occupation. Native American historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has made it her life's work to shine a light on such history, which is so often hidden. She discusses the little-known Green Corn Rebellion in 1917, as well as the struggles of Native peoples in the 1970s. (audio).
The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Tribes 2015 by Mary Stockwell (video talk).
DID MAYAN DEFORESTATION CHANGE THE CLIMATE? 9/15.
Doctrine of Christian Discovery Dakota filmmaker Sheldon Wolfchild's compelling documentary is premised on Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a book based on two decades of research by Shawnee, Lenape scholar Steven T.Newcomb. The film tells the story of how little known Vatican documents of the fifteenth century resulted in a tragic global momentum of domination and dehumanization. This led to law systems in the United States and Canada and elsewhere in the world, that are still being used against Original Nations and Peoples to this day. The film concludes with traditional teachings developed over thousands of years that provide a much needed alternative for humans and the ecological systems of Mother Earth at this time.
Current
Here's how white colonizers set us up for uncontrollable wildfires 11/18.
Native people resist Dakota Access pipeline 9/16. 12/16 UPDATE: WIN! Reporters arrested; military tactics deployed images,women leaders 10/16. Remarkable Video Shows How to Turn Art Into Activism see Backbone Campaign (Ecotopians join it to support Native Ppl resistance to Dakota Access pipeline) 11/16. Also supporting electric rail.
Yes magazine coverage includes Idle No More, a native occupy/spring[ http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/love-and-the-apocalypse/mother-earth-at-the-heart-of-it update 5/13]. LOE.org Audio.
Report Says Canada's Residential Schools Committed 'Cultural Genocide' Against Aboriginals 6/15
Bringing Bison and Biodiversity Back to the Prairie A Montana-based nonprofit is moving to preserve 3.5 million acres of the Great Plains.
Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courageous talk from TEDxDU.
Pine Ridge reservation regenerative plan wins awards. 1/15.
Indigenous Environmental Network
Honor the Earth also has a number of reports, for example 2009, energy EJ
CNIE updated 2002?
Yahoo list of Native American eco orgs
Winona LaDuke Native American activist. article on native rice and GMO's. She has also written about uranium. 2/10 talk about food and energy (video). On Green economy 09.
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 Prize 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. See also new mining
Black Mesa Trust vs Peabody Coal. In 2005 Enei Begaye’s Black Mesa Water Coalition and other groups bested Peabody Energy, the coal giant that was draining the Navajo and Hopi reservations’ drinking water to power Southern California’s urban buzz. The coal mine at Black Mesa, which stretches across northeastern Arizona near the Four Corners region, was shuttered. With it went tribal jobs and revenues. “It was a victory,” says 30-year-old Begaye, “but it was bittersweet.” So the youthful coalition suited up for a new challenge: fostering sustainable Native economies by developing community-based green businesses and weaning tribal governments from dependence on mineral mining. The new path, says Begaye, is paved by tradition: “We’ve been using wind and the sun for generations.” background. Orion essay.Stolen bones.
Waziyatawin is a Dakota writer, teacher, and activist committed to the development of liberation strategies that will support the recovery of Indigenous ways of being, the reclamation of Indigenous homelands, and the eradication of colonial institutions.
STAR school teaches Navajo culture.
Images
Belo Monte Dam Threatens Brazilian Amazon
Video
We Shall Remain PBS 5 part series ****
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action.
Unnatural Causes is a seven hour documentary on environmental justice shown on PBS. Extensive coverage of Native Americans, food, diabetes and asthma.Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making US Sick? PBS study of food and other factors.
The Spirit of Crazy Horse Lakota Sioux history (not to be confused with Peltier book) PBS video.
'Incident at Oglala' ***(trailer), produced and narrated by Robert Redford, directed by Michael Apted, bares the bones of "one of the most infamous political frame-ups in modern U.S. history." The Long Struggle of Leonard Peltier, still in prison. older documentary
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee follows a young Mary Crow Dog and her poor Lakota family living on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota as she briefly learns the ways of her people and of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee told to her by her grandfather Fool Bull.
A Good Day to Die is a documentary about AIM leader Dennis Banks. 2011
Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. TEDtalk video.
Screenwriter Chris Enss discusses her book, Mochi’s War, about the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre (Smithsonian), in which nearly 200 Cheyenne were killed over land disputes.
Power Paths offers a unique glimpse into the global energy crisis from the perspective of a culture pledged to protect the planet, historically exploited by corporate interests and neglected by public policy makers. The film follows an intertribal coalition as they fight to transform their local economies by replacing coal mines and smog-belching power plants with renewable energy technologies.
Hopi: Song of the Fourth World.
Almir Narayamoga Surui, 32, an environmentalist, political activist and tribal chief, has been fighting to save both his Surui tribe and the Amazon rainforest for more than 15 years. His efforts are credited with almost single-handedly bringing his tribe back from the brink of extinction. His opposition to logging, mining, agricultural and other development interests in favor of more sustainable ventures in western Brazil has made him the target of death threats and violence.
John Trudell was the spokesman of the American Indian Movement during the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, where he set up a radio broadcast called Radio Free Alcatraz. Trudell later served as the head of the American Indian Movement for most of the 1970s. He was also a poet who combined spoken word and music for more than a dozen albums. Trudell died in December at the age of 69. song “Time Dreams”–a collaboration between the Minneapolis folk band The Pines.
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."
Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog (Author), Richard Erdoes (Contributor).
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.
UCSC People
American Indian Resource Center has brought great people here to speak such as Winona LaDuke, Emily Houzous (nursing) and authors of “Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing”, Catriona Rueda Esquibel and CSU East Bay professor Luz Calvo.
Melissa Nelson (College Eight '91, environmental studies), is a Native American activist and scholar traveling the world to educate, inspire, and learn from indigenous cultures; she serves as the executive director and president of The Cultural Conservancy, an indigenous rights non-profit organization based in San Francisco, Native Land. 11/15 update.
Rick Flores is a graduate student in the Environmental Studies Department focusing on the efforts of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band to relearn traditional ecological knowledge and become active stewards in their traditional territory once again after colonization (the Steward of the Amah Mutsunat the Arboretum, which is a collaborative effort between the Arboretum).More at Ctr for Creative Ecologies.
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