Wind destroys and lumber ‘progresses,’ though both fell the same trees.

Evidence

When the high winds hit the reservation, the press called it a “natural disaster.” But when lumber companies similarly vanquish the trees, it is commonly called “progress.” All across the region, lumber companies are expanding, a result, many Anishinaabeg say, of heightened resistance to logging elsewhere in the country. The Minnesota lumber industry cuts 4.1 million cords of wood every year. This industry has turned its attention to the boreal forest, which still covers most of northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, much of the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, and Quebec. This land is largely Anishinaabeg Akiing, Ojibwe country. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 662

Categorization

• XREF: The natural-disaster/progress framing parallels the language-power theme threaded across the four courses. — connects to: Non-Indians take the vast majority of game on the White Earth reservation. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 650
• SEED: The divergent vocabularies for identical destruction is a strong essay kernel on environmental narrative framing.