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Book All Our Relations

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  • Author : Winona LaDuke
  • Publisher : Haymarket Books
  • Release : 2017-01-15
  • ISBN : 1608466612
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book All Our Relations written by Winona LaDuke and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Native American history can guide us today: “Presents strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos.” —Whole Earth Written by a former Green Party vice-presidential candidate who was once listed among “America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty” by Time magazine, this thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community. “Moving and often beautiful prose.” —Ralph Nader “Thoroughly researched and convincingly written.” —Choice

Book Life from Our Land

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  • Author : Marcus Crown Grodi
  • Publisher : Ignatius Press
  • Release : 2015-09-01
  • ISBN : 1681496828
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Life from Our Land written by Marcus Crown Grodi and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from every direction beckon us, even push us, toward better and faster technology, with the promise of more wealth, more pleasure, and, consequently, more happiness. But have we become so bewitched by the siren song of material progress that we've lost the ability not just to achieve, but to discern what true happiness is? What criteria do we use to plan for the future, for retirement? At the end of our earthly lives, how will we measure our fruitfulness? In this book Marcus Grodi discusses what he and his family discovered, mostly by surprise, after moving from the city to twenty-five acres of Ohio farmland. This move involved a radical shift in priorities for all of them, but mostly it helped them to discover some critical truths about our relationship to nature and to nature's Creator that apply regardless of where a person lives. He offers wonderful reflections on his going-back-to-the-land experience as a metaphor for drawing closer to God.

Book Our Land is Our Life

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  • Author : Galarrwuy Yunupingu
  • Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Our Land is Our Life written by Galarrwuy Yunupingu and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1997 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Land is Our Lifeis a rare opportunity to sit down with Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Marcia Langton, Michael Dodson and Patrick Dodson, Noel Person, Lois O'Donoghue, Michael Mansell, Peter Yu, and many more whose names appear in the daily media. In this collection the most influential indigenous leaders of our time provide analyses and reveal their passions for their people and land, and for the Australia we all want to call home.

Book This Land Is Our Land

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  • Author : Jedediah Purdy
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-05-18
  • ISBN : 0691216797
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book This Land Is Our Land written by Jedediah Purdy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.

Book Life of the Land

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  • Author : Dana Naone Hall
  • Publisher : AI Pohaku Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781883528447
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Life of the Land written by Dana Naone Hall and published by AI Pohaku Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Dana Naone Hall articulates, through essays, testimony, public talks, writings, interviews, and poetry, her 30 years of activism surrounding Native Hawaiian rights to traditional lands- including advocating for burial preservation, which ultimately led to the birth of the Hawaiian burial movement and the creation of state laws to protect remains and establish island burial councils.

Book In the National Interest

Download or read book In the National Interest written by Gary Evans and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Evans traces the development of the postwar NFB, picking up the story where he left it at the end of his earlier work, John Grierson and the National Film Board: The Politics of Wartime Propaganda.

Book A Line in the Sand

Download or read book A Line in the Sand written by Richard Brighton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life on the Land

Download or read book Life on the Land written by Carolyn J. Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE ON THE LAND: Memoir of a Farmer’s Daughter is an inspirational look at life through the eyes of a black child during a time when “cotton was king.” Carolyn J. Brown shares her story of living on a farm in Northeast Texas. She details the challenges and joys of growing up in a family of black cotton farmers who worked on their own land. Upon leaving the farm for a career in urban education, the author faced different kinds of challenges and rewards which she describes. Also included are strategies that engage children with literature in meaningful ways.

Book Resistance

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  • Author : Shane Moran
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-04-19
  • ISBN : 1793628424
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Resistance written by Shane Moran and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Resistance: Sol Plaatje and South Africa, Shane Moran studies Sol Plaatje, the founding secretary of what was to become the African National Congress (ANC), and his work within the context of colonial politics and resistance. Arguing for a return to the study of one of the founders of anti-racism, Moran explores issues of land reform, human rights, and the legacy of colonialism. Through an in-depth analysis of Plaatje’s resistance to racial domination, Moran examines the nature of the struggles that continue within and beyond South Africa today. In particular, Moran analyzes events from the beginning of the previous century that shaped post-1994 South Africa, such as the resolution of the ANC to expropriate land without compensation.

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 2070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Land is Ours

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  • Author : Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
  • Release : 2018-02-01
  • ISBN : 1776092864
  • Pages : 491 pages

Download or read book The Land is Ours written by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice. The book follows the lives, ideas and careers of Henry Sylvester Williams, Alfred Mangena, Richard Msimang, Pixley ka Isaka Seme, Ngcubu Poswayo and George Montsioa, most of whom were also members of the ANC. It analyses the legal cases they took on, explores how they reconciled the law with the political upheavals of the day, and considers how they sustained their fidelity to the law when legal victories were undermined by politics. The Land Is Ours shows how these lawyers developed the concept of a Bill of Rights, which is now an international norm. Amid current suspicion of the Constitution and its protection of individual rights, the book clearly demonstrates that, from the beginning, the struggle for freedom was based on the ideas of constitutionalism and the rule of law.

Book Feral

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  • Author : George Monbiot
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2014-09-26
  • ISBN : 022620555X
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Feral written by George Monbiot and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an investigative journalist, Monbiot found a mission in his ecological boredom, that of learning what it might take to impose a greater state of harmony between himself and nature. He was not one to romanticize undisturbed, primal landscapes, but rather in his attempts to satisfy his cravings for a richer, more authentic life, he came stumbled into the world of restoration and rewilding. When these concepts were first introduced in 2011, very recently, they focused on releasing captive animals into the wild. Soon the definition expanded to describe the reintroduction of animal and plant species to habitats from which they had been excised. Some people began using it to mean the rehabilitation not just of particular species, but of entire ecosystems: a restoration of wilderness. Rewilding recognizes that nature consists not just of a collection of species but also of their ever-shifting relationships with each other and with the physical environment. Ecologists have shown how the dynamics within communities are affected by even the seemingly minor changes in species assemblages. Predators and large herbivores have transformed entire landscapes, from the nature of the soil to the flow of rivers, the chemistry of the oceans, and the composition of the atmosphere. The complexity of earth systems is seemingly boundless."

Book Atenco Lives

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  • Author : Livia K. Stone
  • Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
  • Release : 2021-04-30
  • ISBN : 0826503039
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Atenco Lives written by Livia K. Stone and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People's Front in Defense of Land of Atenco (the "Frente") is an emblematic force in contemporary Mexican politics and in anti-capitalist, anti-neoliberal activist networks throughout the world. Best known for years of resistance against the encroachment of a government airport project on communal farmland, the Frente also became international news when its members were subject to state violence, rape, and intimidation in a brutal government crackdown in 2006. Through it all, documentary filmmaking has been one aspect of the Frente and its allies' efforts. The contradictions and difficulties of this moral and political project emerge in the day-to-day experiences of local, national, and international filmmakers and film distributors seeking to participate in the social movement. Stone highlights the importance of how the circulation of the physical videos, and not just their content, promotes the social movement. More broadly she shows how videographers perform their activism, navigating the tensions between neoliberal personhood or ego and an ethos of compañerismo that privileges community. Grounded in the lived experiences of Atenco's activists and allied filmmakers, Atenco Lives! documents the making and circulating of films as an ethical and political practice purposefully used to transform human relationships.

Book Relocation of Certain Hopi and Navajo Indians

Download or read book Relocation of Certain Hopi and Navajo Indians written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blacklines

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  • Author : Michele Grossman
  • Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
  • Release : 2012-10-16
  • ISBN : 0522853021
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Blacklines written by Michele Grossman and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by established and emerging Indigenous intellectuals from a variety of positions, perspectives and places, these essays generate new ways of seeing and understanding Indigenous Australian history, culture, identity and knowledge in both national and global contexts. From museums to Mabo, anthropology to art, feminism to film, land rights to literature, the essays collected here offer provocative insights and compelling arguments around the historical and contemporary issues confronting Indigenous Australians today.

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1380 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Ounce of Practice

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  • Author : Leo Zeilig
  • Publisher : HopeRoad Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2017-01-26
  • ISBN : 1908446641
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book An Ounce of Practice written by Leo Zeilig and published by HopeRoad Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set between London and Harare in the present day, the novel follows a group of quasi-revolutionaries who are fighting against Mugabe’s dictatorship and in favour of Socialist policies. It is a novel about hope, fear, and failure, and how fighting for an all-consuming cause can forge some relationships but ruin others.