Settler Cannabis : From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California / Kaitlin P. Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Kaitlin P., author.

Series:

Indigenous confluences.

Indigenous Confluences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Colonization.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous people--Colonization.

Indigenous people of North America--Colonization.

Indians of North America--Crimes against.

Indigenous peoples--Colonization.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Crimes against.

Northern California.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Colonization.

Indigenous people of North America--Colonization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington : University of Washington Press, [2023]

Biography/History:

Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) is assistant professor of Native American studies at Humboldt State University.

Summary:

"Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5 billion. In Settler Cannabis, Kaitlin Reed demonstrates how this "green rush" is only the most recent example of settler colonial resource extraction and wealth accumulation. Situating the cannabis industry within this broader legacy, the author traces patterns of resource rushing -- first gold, then timber, then fish, and now cannabis --to reveal the ongoing impacts on Indigenous cultures, lands, waters, and bodies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Settler colonialism and ecological violence

1. Gold, greed, and genocide: Settler colonialism and resource extraction in the California Gold Rush

2. Forests on fire: Constructing natural resources and imposing ecological regimes

3. Salmon is everything: Controlling rivers and commodifying kin

4. Back to whose land? Hippies, environmentalism, and cannabis

5. Weed greed: Explosion of the California green rush

6. No justice on stolen land: Cannabis cultivation and land dispossession

7. Cannabis and water: Use, rights, and infrastructure

8. Toxic environments: Cannabis, chemicals, and legacy impacts

Conclusion: Ecological crisis and #LandBack.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295751573

0295751576

OCLC:

1452199156