Strong hearts, Native lands : the cultural and political landscape of Anishinaabe anti-clearcutting activism / Anna J. Willow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willow, Anna J.

Series:

Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building.

Tribal worlds : critical studies in American Indian nation building

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ojibwa Indians--Ontario--Kenora Region--Politics and government.

Ojibwa Indians.

Ojibwa Indians--Ontario--Kenora Region--Social conditions.

Ojibwa Indians--Ontario--Kenora Region--Ethnic identity.

Clearcutting--Ontario--Kenora Region.

Clearcutting.

Forest protection--Ontario--Kenora Region.

Forest protection.

Indian activists--Ontario--Kenora Region.

Indian activists.

Environmentalists--Ontario--Kenora Region.

Environmentalists.

Protest movements--Ontario--Kenora Region.

Protest movements.

English River Indian Reserve No. 21 (Ont.)--Environmental conditions.

English River Indian Reserve No. 21 (Ont.).

Kenora Region (Ont.)--Environmental conditions.

Kenora Region (Ont.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

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 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.

Contents:

Anishinaabe Cultural History and Land-Based Subsistence

From Aboriginal Policy to Indigenous Empowerment

A World Transformed

Phases of the Grassy Narrows Blockade

Beginnings

The Blockade

Blockade Life

Negotiations and Networks

Beyond the Blockade

Conclusion: The Blockade is Still There.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438442044

1438442041

OCLC:

802046268