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Author |
: Elizabeth Hoover |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2017-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452956244 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452956243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The River Is in Us by : Elizabeth Hoover
Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in upstate New York that is downwind and downstream from three Superfund sites. For years she witnessed elevated rates of miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer in her town, ultimately drawing connections between environmental contamination and these maladies. When she brought her findings to environmental health researchers, Cook sparked the United States’ first large-scale community-based participatory research project. In The River Is in Us, author Elizabeth Hoover takes us deep into this remarkable community that has partnered with scientists and developed grassroots programs to fight the contamination of its lands and reclaim its health and culture. Through in-depth research into archives, newspapers, and public meetings, as well as numerous interviews with community members and scientists, Hoover shows the exact efforts taken by Akwesasne’s massive research project and the grassroots efforts to preserve the Native culture and lands. She also documents how contaminants have altered tribal life, including changes to the Mohawk fishing culture and the rise of diabetes in Akwesasne. Featuring community members such as farmers, health-care providers, area leaders, and environmental specialists, while rigorously evaluating the efficacy of tribal efforts to preserve its culture and protect its health, The River Is in Us offers important lessons for improving environmental health research and health care, plus detailed insights into the struggles and methods of indigenous groups. This moving, uplifting book is an essential read for anyone interested in Native Americans, social justice, and the pollutants contaminating our food, water, and bodies.
Author |
: Benjamin Kline |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442203990 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442203994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis First Along the River by : Benjamin Kline
"First Along the River provides a concise, updated introduction to U.S. environmental history. An excellent supplement for any student of the subject."--"Bob Buerger, professor of environmental studies, University of North Carolina, Wilmington --
Author |
: Richard Peck |
Publisher |
: Puffin Books |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2005-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780142403105 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0142403105 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The River Between Us by : Richard Peck
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
Author |
: W. Michael Gear |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 548 |
Release |
: 2009-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780765364494 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0765364492 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis People of the River by : W. Michael Gear
All the Gears' previous titles in the First North American series have been national bestsellers. Now, People of the River is finally available in mass-market. This gripping saga tells of the Mound Builders of the Mississippi Valley. In a time of many troubles, a warchief and his people have lost all hope. But hope is revived with a young girl learning to Dream of Power.
Author |
: Bob Deans |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2008-12-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780742564893 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0742564894 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The River Where America Began by : Bob Deans
From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrumental in the formation of modern America. It was along the James that British and Native American cultures collided and, in a twisted paradox, the seeds of democracy and slavery were sown side by side. The culture crafted by Virginia's learned aristocrats, merchants, farmers, and frontiersmen gave voice to the cause of the American Revolution and provided a vision for the fledgling independent nation's future. Over the course of the United States' first century, the James River bore witness to the irreconcilable contradiction of a slave-holding nation dedicated to liberty and equality for all. When that intractable conflict ignited civil war, the James River served as a critical backdrop for the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. As he guides readers through this exciting historical narrative, Deans gives life to a dynamic cast of characters including the familiar Powhatan, John Smith, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, and Robert E. Lee, as well as those who have largely escaped historical notoriety. The River Where America Began takes readers on a journey along the James River from the earliest days of civilization nearly 15,000 years ago through the troubled English settlement at Jamestown and finishes with Lincoln's tour of the defeated capital of Richmond in 1865. Deans traces the historical course of a river whose contributions to American life are both immeasurable and unique. This innovative history invites us all to look into these restless waters in a way that connects us to our past and reminds us of who we are as Americans.
Author |
: Macon Fry |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2021-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496833099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496833090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis They Called Us River Rats by : Macon Fry
They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shantyboats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana’s most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.
Author |
: Marianne Berkes |
Publisher |
: Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 35 |
Release |
: 2013-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781584693321 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1584693320 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Over in a River by : Marianne Berkes
Learning becomes fun for everyone in this book about the geography of north American rivers and about the animals that live in this habitat. The amazing artwork in this book will inspire kids in classrooms and at home to appreciate the world around us! The great rivers of North America are teeming with life and on the pages of Over in a River—from blue herons in the Hudson to salmon in the Columbia, and from dragonflies in the Rio Grande to mallards in the St. Lawrence. Children will "slither" like water snakes and "slide" like otters while singing to the tune of "Over in a Meadow." Read about the snake, beaver, frog, otter, dragonfly, and more that lives along the rivers! Kids love counting books, too! What a delightful way to learn about riparian habitats and geography at the same time! Backmatter Includes: Further information about rivers and the animals in this book! Music and song lyrics to "Over in the River" sung to the tune "Over in the Meadow"!
Author |
: Monika Vaicenavičiene |
Publisher |
: Enchanted Lion Books |
Total Pages |
: 48 |
Release |
: 2020-02-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1592702791 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781592702794 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Is a River? by : Monika Vaicenavičiene
A river is a thread, embroidering our world. This non-fiction picture book brings attention to the rivers that stitch and thread our world together.
Author |
: William R. Hildebrandt |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1597140864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781597140867 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life on the River by : William R. Hildebrandt
What little we will come to know about Indians of the Upper Sacramento River region before the Europeans arrived, we are just learning now.
Author |
: Elizabeth C. Economy |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2011-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801459443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801459443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The River Runs Black by : Elizabeth C. Economy
China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country's future development. Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, the author traces the economic and political roots of China's environmental challenge and the evolution of the leadership's response. She argues that China's current approach to environmental protection mirrors the one embraced for economic development: devolving authority to local officials, opening the door to private actors, and inviting participation from the international community, while retaining only weak central control. The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Economy compares China's response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country. This second edition is updated with information about events during the past five years, covering China's tumultuous transformation of its economy and its landscape as it deals with the political implications of this behavior as viewed by an international community ever more concerned about climate change and dwindling energy resources.