Strong hearts, native lands : anti-clearcutting activism at Grassy Narrows First Nation / Anna J. Willow.

Main entry:

Willow, Anna J.

Title & Author:

Strong hearts, native lands : anti-clearcutting activism at Grassy Narrows First Nation / Anna J. Willow.

Publication:

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, 2012.

Description:

xiv, 252 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anishinaabe cultural history and land-based subsistence -- From Aboriginal policy to Indigenous empowerment -- A world transformed -- The Grassy Narrows blockade -- Beginnings -- The blockade -- Blockade life -- Negotiations and networks -- Beyond the blockade -- Conclusion: The blockade is still there.

Summary:

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 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. In Strong Hearts, Native Lands, Anna J. Willow demonstrates that Indigenous people? decisions to take environmentally protective action cannot be understood apart from political or cultural concerns. By recounting how and why one Anishinaabe community was able to take a stand against the industrial logging that threatens their land-based subsistence and way of life, Willow offers a more complex and more constructive understanding of human-environment relationships. Grassy Narrows activists have long been part of a network of supporters that extends across North America and beyond. This book shows how the blockade realized those connections, making this community? efforts a model and inspiration for other Indigenous groups, environmentalists, and social justice advocates - Publisher.

ISBN:

9780887557392
0887557392

Subject:

Ojibwa Indians Ontario Kenora Region.
Clearcutting Ontario Kenora Region.
Forest protection Ontario Kenora Region.
Protest movements Ontario Kenora Region.
Ojibwa Ontario Kenora, Région de.
Coupe à blanc Ontario Kenora, Région de.
Forêts Protection Ontario Kenora, Région de.
Contestation Ontario Kenora, Région de.
Kenora, Région de (Ont.) Conditions environnementales.
Clearcutting.
Ecology.
Forest protection.
Ojibwa Indians.
Protest movements.
English River Indian Reserve No. 21 (Ont.) Environmental conditions.
Kenora Region (Ont.) Environmental conditions.
English River no 21 (Ont. : Réserve indienne) Conditions environnementales.
Ontario English River Indian Reserve No. 21.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304655
Call No.: BIB 250313
Status: Available

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