| Strong Hearts, Native Lands: The Cultural and Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anti-Clearcutting Activism Contributor(s): Willow, Anna J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438442033 ISBN-13: 9781438442037 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: 977.004 |
| LCCN: 2011023185 |
| Series: Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.00 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Ontario - Cultural Region - Canadian - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In December 2002 members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation blocked a logging road to impede the movement of timber industry trucks and equipment within their 2,500-square-mile traditional territory. The Grassy Narrows blockade went on to become the longest-standing protest of its type in Canadian history. The story of the blockade is a story of convergences. It takes place where cultural, political, and environmental dimensions of indigenous activism intersect; where history combines with current challenges and future aspirations to inspire direct action. When members of this semiremote northwestern Ontario Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) community took action to protect their land, they did so with the recognition that the fate of the earth and the fate of much more are tightly interwoven. Anna J. Willow demonstrates that indigenous people's decisions to take environmentally protective action cannot be understood apart from motives that Western observers have most often considered political or cultural rather than purely environmental. By recounting how and why one Anishinaabe community was able to take a stand against the industrial logging that threatened their land-based subsistence and way of life, Willow offers a more complex--and more constructive--understanding of human-environment relationships. |