Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community.

Akwesasne : Mohawk mothers' milk and PCBs -- Seminoles: at the heart of the Everglades -- Nitassinan : the hunter and the peasant -- Northern Cheyenne : a fire in the coal fields -- Nuclear waste : dumping on the Indians -- White Earth : a lifeway in the forest -- Buffalo nations, Buffalo peoples -- Hawai'i : the birth of land and its preservation by the hands of the people -- NativeSUN : determining a future -- The seventh generation.