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Native defenders of the environment / by Schilling, Vincent.(CARDINAL)484707;

Includes bibliographical references.Melina Laboucan-Massimo (Lubicon Lake Band of Cree) -- Winona LaDuke (White Earth Band of Ojibwe) -- Clayton Thomas-Muller (Mathais Colomb Cree Nation) -- Ben Powless (Mohawk) -- Tom Goldtooth (Navajo/Dakota) -- Grace Thorpe (Sac and Fox Nation) -- Sarah James (Gwich'in) -- Enei Begaye (Navajo) and Evon Peter (Gwich'in) -- Klee Benally (Navajo) -- Teague Allston (Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia).Presents stories of courage, determination, and resistance to multinational corporations and disastrous government policies that are harming the planet and describes how eleven Native people work to save our environment.008-016.1130L

Subjects: Ethnoecology; Indian activists.; Environmentalism.; Environmental justice.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Native peoples of the Subarctic / by Hayes, Amy,author.(CARDINAL)407875;

Who were the subarctic people? -- The cold north -- Food from the hunt -- Following the herd -- Ojibwe canoes and snowshoes -- Hunting units of the Denesulin -- The Gwich'in on the hunt -- The wigwam and the tepee -- The Athabascan keep warm -- Fishing with the Dogrib -- A nation of beavers -- The slavey -- Fur trade and today."Much of Canada and Alaska can be called the subarctic. This area features the taiga and often cold temperatures. The native peoples of this region had to adapt to this climate in many ways, including making clothes from fur, wearing snowshoes, and carefully insulating their homes. Readers are introduced to which groups can be classified as subarctic and the traditional ways of life they practice. Full-color photographs and historical images highlight the weathers role in their lives as fun fact boxes add more detail about how the fur trade impacted these groups, how they found food, and more." -- Publisher's website.930L

Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Heroes of the environment : true stories of people who are helping to protect our planet / by Rohmer, Harrietauthor(CARDINAL)714750; McLaughlin, Julie,1984-illustrator(CARDINAL)615729;

Raising food in the city: Will Allen, founder, Growing Power Community Food Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- Discovering a new way to clean polluted water: Kelydra Welcker, student chemist, environmental scientist, and inventor, Parkersburg, West Virginia -- Turning waste into good business and good jobs: Omar Freilla, founder, ReBuilders Souce, The South Bronx, New York City -- Bringing solar power to Indian country: Debby Tewa, solar electrician, Hopi Indian Reservation, Arizona -- Speaking out to a big oil company: Margie Richard, activist and former middle school teacher, Old Diamond, Louisiana -- Inventing eco-machines: John Todd, inventor, engineer, and designer, Woods Hole, Massachusetts -- Recycling electronic waste: Alex Lin, teenager who helped write Rhode Island's e-waste law, Westerly, Rhode Island -- Saving West Virginia's oldest mountains: Julia "Judy" Bonds, community activist, Coal River Mountain Watch, Whitesville, West Virginia -- Fighting the enemies of the environment: El Hijo del Santo ("Son of the Saint"), champion masked wrestler, Mexico City, Mexico -- Protecting Louisiana wetlands: Barry Guillot, middle school science teacher, Destrehan, Louisiana -- Saving the Porcupine River caribou: Sarah James, spokesperson, Gwich'in Indian people of Alaska and Canada, Arctic Village, Alaska -- Safeguarding the California coast: Erica Fernandez, student and environmental activist, Oxnard, California -- How you can get involved.This inspiring book presents the true stories of 12 people, most of them teenagers or younger adults, from across North America who have done great things for the environment. Heroes include a teenage girl who figured out how to remove an industrial pollutant from the Ohio River, a Mexican superstar wrestler who works to protect turtles and whales, and a teenage boy from Rhode Island who helped his community and his state develop effective e-waste recycling programs. Plenty of photographs and illustrations bring each compelling story vividly to life.1070LLexile: 1070.Accelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader/Renaissance LearningA Junior Library Guild selection

Subjects: Biographies.; Environmentalists; Environmentalists;

Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 10

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Anthropology, history, and American Indians : essays in honor of William Curtis Sturtevant / by Goddard, Ives,1941-(CARDINAL)288116; Merrill, William L.(CARDINAL)288117;

Includes bibliographical references.Sibling review / Harriet Sturtevant Shapiro -- William Curtis Sturtevant, anthropologist / William L. Merrill -- The writings of William C. Sturtevant / compiled by William L. Merrill -- Sleepwalking through the history of anthropology: anthropologists on home ground / Laura Nader -- Charlatan, scientist, or poet? Frank Hamilton Cushing's search for a language of experiential knowledge / Curtis M. Hinsley -- George A. Dorsey and the development of Plains Indian anthropology / Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks -- American Indian migrations: a neglected dimension of paleodemography / Dean R. Snow -- From ethnohistory to anthropological history / Shepard Krech III -- Editing a Cambridge history in a postmodern context / Bruce G. Trigger -- A historian among the anthropologists / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- "A very great harvest of souls": Timucua Indians and the impact of European colonization / Jerald T. Milanich -- The interstices of literacy: books and writings and their use in Native American southern New England / Kathleen J. Bragdon -- From manifest destiny to the melting pot: the life and times of Charlotte Mitchell, Wampanoag / William S. Simmons -- Indian imagery and the development of tourism in the Southwest / JoAllyn Archambault -- Hawaiian art: from sacred symbol to tourist icon to ethnic identity marker / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- The Neets'aii Gwich'in in the twentieth century / Jack Campisi -- Classifying North American Indian languages before 1850 / Elisabeth Tooker -- Origins of museum anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution and beyond / William W. Fitzhugh -- Collections as currency / Jane MacLaren Walsh --The creation of anthropological archives: a California case study / Ira Jacknis -- Starring the anthropologists in the American men of science / David J. Meltzer -- At the cutting edge: patchwork and the process of artistic innovation / Sally Price -- European motifs in protohistoric Iroquois art / Edmund Carpenter -- Quilled knife cases from northeastern North America / Christian F. Feest -- Pabookowaih unmasked / William N. Fenton and Donald B. Smith -- The linguistic writings of Alfred Kiyana on Fox (Meskwaki) / Ives Goddard -- The Munich Chukchi collection / Jean-Loup Rousselot -- Totemism reconsidered / Raymond D. Fogelson and Robert A. Brightman -- Coyote, acorns, salmon, and quartz: verse analysis of a Karok myth / Dell Hymes -- The distribution and habits of the ringed seal and Central Eskimo settlement patterns / David Damas -- Species transformations in northern Mexico: explorations in Rarámuri zoology / William L. Merrill -- Quenching homologous thirsts / Sidney W. Mintz.

Subjects: Sturtevant, William C.; Anthropologists; Anthropology; Ethnological museums and collections; Indians;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Restoring the kinship worldview : indigenous voices introduce 28 precepts for rebalancing life on planet Earth / by Jacobs, Donald Trent,1946-author.; Narváez, Darcia,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Recognition of spiritual energies in nature / Mourning Dove (Okanagan and Sinixt) -- Nonhierarchial society / Wenona Victor Hall (Sto:lo) -- Courage and fearless trust in the universe / Berta Cá́ceres and Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres (Lenca) -- Understanding/embracing death and dying / Coyote Marie Hunter-Ripper (Cherokee, Choctaw) -- Emphasis on community welfare / Doñ̃a Enriqueta Contreras (Zapotecan) -- High respect for the sacred feminine / Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo) -- Respect for gender role fluidity / Laura Hall (Haudenosaunee) -- Nonmaterialistic barter, gift, and kinship economics / Rebecca Adamson (Cherokee) -- All earth entities are sentient / Robin Wall Kimmerer (Citizen Potowatomi Nation) -- The sacred nature of competition and games / Sharon and Shirley Firth (Gwich'in) -- Nonanthropocentrism / Terry LeBlanc (Mi'kmaq) -- Words are sacred (Truthfulness) / Ed McGaa, aka Eagle Man (Oglala Lakota) -- Mutual dependence / Jack Forbes (Powhatan-Lenape, Delaware-Lenape)Complimentary duality / Barbara Alice Mann (Seneca) -- Generosity as way of life / Martin Brokenleg (Lakota) -- Ceremony as life sustaining / Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) -- Humor as essential / Charlie Hill (Oneida Oneida-Mohawk-Cree) -- Conflict resolution as return to community / Wanda D. McCaslin (Métis) -- Laws of nature as highest rules for living / Winona LaDuke (Ojibwe) -- Becoming fully human / Greg Cajete (Tewa, Santa Clara Pueblo) -- Nature seen as benevolent / Basil Johnston (Wasauksing) -- Responsibility emphasis / Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (Aztec) -- Connection to the land / Enrigue Salmón (Raramuri-Tarahuamara) -- Centrality of gratitude / Audrey Shenandoah (Onondaga) -- Noninterference / Clare Brant (Mohawk, Wolf Clan) -- Circular time and knowledge / Tyson Yunkaporta (Apalech Clan in far north Queensland) -- Self-initiated relational healing / Gloria Lee (Cree-Pelican Lake) -- An emphasis on heart wisdom / Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff (Unangan)."A collection of 28 excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders that reflect the wisdom of Indigenous worldview precepts, accompanied by analysis"--

Subjects: Quotations.; Indian philosophy.; Indians of North America; Wisdom.; Kinship.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3

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