What is sacred? -- Part 1. Sacred lands and sacred places. God, squirrels, and the universe : The Mt. Graham International Observatory and the University of Arizona: The Apache and the wars ; Raising Arizona ; In search of the authentic Apaches -- Salt, water, blood, and coal : mining in the southwest: "I am as much of the clouds as they are of me" ; Asabakeshiinh, the Spider ; The Mormons, the lawyers, and the coal ; Sucking the Mother dry ; The Salt Mothers still rests -- Klamath land and life: The stronghold ; Unhealed wounds of federal policy ; Termination: the trees and the land ; Edison Chiloquin and tribal restoration ; A river runs through it ; Valuable stuff -- part 2. Ancestors, images, and our lives. Imperial anthropology : The ethics of collection: "I am a man" ; Ishi's descendants ; The ethics of collecting ; Our relatives are poisoned ; Spoils of war -- Quilled cradleboard covers, cultural patrimony, and Wounded Knee: Cankpe Opi: Wounded Knee ; Cante Ognaka: the heart of everything that is ; The road to wounded knee ; The killing fields ; The aftermath and the Medals of Honor ; The collection ; The spirits still linger ; NAGPRA: the Homecoming Law ; Healing and reconciliation -- Vampires in the New World : Blood, academia, and human genetics; Captain Hook and the biopirates -- Masks in the new millennium: The native in the game ; The fighting Sioux ; Ralph the Nazi ; In the spirit of Crazy Horse ; Defense of spirit -- part 3. Seeds and medicine. Three sisters : Recovery of traditional agriculture of Cayuga, Mohawk and Oneida Communities: Cayugas remember ; Monocultures of the mind of the land ; Peacemaking among neighbors ; Kanatiohareke: the Mohawk's clean pot ; The Oneida's Tsyunhehkwa: "It provides life for us" -- Wild rice : Maps, genes, and patents: Manoominike: making wild rice ; The price of rice ; Indian harvest or Dutch harvest? ; Gene hunters and the map of the wild rice genome ; Patents and biopiracy ; Academic freedom and ethics ; Pollen drift and those ducks ; Intellectual property ; Water levels and bad development projects ; Where the food grows on the water: Rice Lake and the Crandon Mine ; Tribal laws and cultural property rights -- Food and medicine : The recovery of traditional foods to heal the people: Traditional agricultural and biodiversity ; "Let them eat grass" ; What we eat makes us sick ; They can't even eat grass: Navajo livestock reduction ; Genes or colonialism? ; Food as medicine ; Dream of wild health ; Mino Miijim ; The place of the gardens -- part 4. Relatives. Return of the horse nation : The horse nation ; The Wallowa Valley homecoming -- Namewag: Sturgeion and people in the Great Lakes Region: Deconstruction at its best -- Recovering power to slow climate change: The economics of energy ; TateĢ: the wind is Wakan ; Spitting or pissing in the wind? ; Global warming and the quality of ice ; Power, inequalityy, and environmental injustice ; Restructuring the energy industry ; Democratizing power production.
Summary:
"An overview of efforts by Native Americans to regain cultural and genetic patrimony and the conditions needed for traditional spiritual practices, including tribal histories, analysis of changes to nutrition, economy, and physical environment, and actions taken toward pollution abatement, dam removal, land and cultural reclamation, and alternative energy production"--Provided by publisher.
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