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To Be A Water Protector

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Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector, explores issues that have ...
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Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. Her new book, To Be a Water Protector: Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers, is an expansive, provocative engagement with issues that have been central to her many years of activism. LaDuke honours Mother Earth and her teachings while detailing global, Indigenous-led opposition to the enslavement and exploitation of the land and water. She discusses several elements of a New Green Economy and outlines the lessons we can take from activists outside the US and Canada. In her unique way of storytelling, Winona LaDuke is inspiring, always a teacher and an utterly fearless activist, writer and speaker.

Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota. She is executive director of Honor the Earth, a national Native advocacy and environmental organization. Her work at the White Earth Land Recovery Project spans thirty years of legal, policy and community development work, including the creation of one of the first tribal land trusts in the country. LaDuke has testified at the United Nations, US Congress and state hearings and is an expert witness on economics and the environment. She is the author of numerous acclaimed articles and books.

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Price: $25.00
Pages: 320
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date: 01 December 2020
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781773632674
Format: Paperback
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NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection

Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have protected the earth’s precious water systems in recognition of our dependence on these living ecosystems. Water Protectors are earth warriors who put their bodies on the line in the face of powerful, violent and destructive extractive industries supported by Wiindigoo governors. Winona LaDuke is one of those Water Protectors who has made a compelling call to all peoples to rise up and protect the water and in so doing protect life itself on this planet.
A two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate, author of five books of nonfiction, one children’s book and a novel, Winona LaDuke is one of the world’s most tireless and charismatic leaders on issues related to climate change, Indigenous and human rights, green and rural economies, grass-roots organizing and restoring local food systems over a career spanning nearly forty years of activism.

Part 1. Reflections on Sacred Earth
1. Lyla June Johnson Declares
2. Seeds of Hope
3. The Holy Land is Here
4. The Month You Remember Me
5. How to be better Ancestors
6. Winter Count

Part 2. Despoiling the Earth
7. Filth of North Dakota
8. I Miss You
9. Omaakaakii: In Praise of Frogs
10. Oil, Water and the Judges
11. Free the Snake
12. Dumb Stuff Canada Does
13. And then She Smote Me
14. Amazon

Part 3. Water Protectors/Standing Rock
15. Necessity Defence
16. Purple Heart for Sophia
17. The Law For Us All
18. Water Protectors, Monster Slayers
19. Tale of Red Fawn and the Hammonds
20. Not Afraid to Look the White Man in the Face

Part 4. Line 3

� Happy Anniversary
� Enbridge's Tax Problems
� Choking on Greed
� Black Snake Chronicles
� Fake Organizations
� Reconciliation Pipeline
� Sex, Pipelines and Matriarchy
� Dear Al, 2016, 2017, 2018

Part 5. Divestment/A Green Economy
� Match
� Ponies
� The Renaissance
� Star Lake of My Ancestors
� Turning on a Dime
� In the Time of the Windigo
� How Sweet It Is
� The Renaissance of Tribal Hemp
� Go Naked or Go Hemp
� One Dish, One Spoon
� Shine Some Light
� The New Iron Horse

Part 6. International Solidarity/Lessons
� Really Finland
� Viva Mexico
� Brutality of Canadian Might
� About that Meddling
� Borinquén (Puerto Rico)
� What El Salvador can Teach Us
� What Happened to Libya