Resistance and Redemption: Indigenous Environmentalism in the Age of Extraction
by Robert Lundahl (Author)
“Resistance and Redemption” chronicles the work of indigenous elders, tribal members and allies to resist and stop large scale environmental damage. They are protecting Native Sacred Sites and biodiversity hot spots from mining for Lithium, Uranium, Copper and Gold, and the build-out of utility scale energy facilities across the American West. Hardcover Paperback e-Book/Kindle
Table of Contents:
Chapter One– The Land You Know Has Been Given to You
Chapter Two– Oak Flat: The Story Behind the Story
Chapter Three– The Fight to Save Thacker Pass
Chapter Four– Thacker Pass, An Archaeological Perspective
Chapter Five– What Do We Mean by Environmental Justice?
Chapter Six– Chasing the American Dream in Lithium Valley
Chapter Seven– Dorece Sam: SLAPP Suits and Dirty Deals
Chapter Eight– A Story Told: Benefits or a Curse at Thacker Pass
Chapter Nine– rewilding LA/Massacre in the Rocks
Chapter Ten– Rose Bowl Genocide
Paiute Lands: Democracy in the Early Americas
Interviews with Matthew Leivas Sr. (Chemehuevi Hereditary Chief) and others
by Robert Lundahl (Author)
It has been understood that the Haudenosaunee (League of the Iroquois) Long House traditions played an important role in the formative understandings of the democratic traditions of the United States within the Republic.
Less known is that in the lands of the Paiute, across four states in the West, such traditions of sometimes remote self governing bodies, united by common beliefs, values, and family structures, formed a democratic nation before and within a nation, existing today as a diaspora seeking its originative principles and relationships in a modern-day Reconstruction.
Robert Lundahl is a practicing anthropologist and filmmaker investigating culture, consciousness, and exosomatic inheritance.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One– Puha
Chapter Two– Gertrude Hanks
Chapter Three– Underground River
Chapter Four– The BIA Made a White Man Out of Me
Chapter Five– Experiencing Sherman Institute and Sherman Indian High School
Chapter Six– Water in the West
Chapter Seven– Hostile Territory
Chapter Eight– Is Southern California Drinking Las Vegas’ Reclaimed Water?
Chapter Nine– Chemehuevi Sweet Corn
Chapter Ten– Rocket Fuel
Epilogue– The Gold Rush and the Californios
Credits