Winona LaDuke — All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life

139 published claims from this book.

• A 1984 dam release drowned over 10,000 migrating caribou
• A 1990s bill would ship up to 90,000 nuclear waste loads by highway
• A national park evicted living Hawaiians to present a historic Hawaiian culture
• A quarter of the US heartland has reverted to frontier status
• A Seventh Generation deliberation rule would have voided thousands of U.S. government decisions.
• A single road links Labrador’s destructive extractive projects
• A state legislature first mandated closing a reactor without a waste dump
• Accidental PCB rice-oil poisonings killed infants and caused lifelong disorders
• Agricultural drainage destroyed half of America’s original wetlands
• Aluminum plants emitted staggering fluoride volumes downwind of Akwesasne
• Anishinaabeg cultural revival adapts the ancestral lifeway to present circumstances
• Anishinaabeg Seventh Fire prophecy frames the present as a branching time of two roads.
• Border-town schools profited from Cheyenne students they failed, even blocking tribal self-schooling.
• Breast milk PCB levels ran 200 percent higher in fish-eating Mohawk mothers
• Breastfeeding advice worked only because women first abandoned traditional fishing
• Buffalo decimation caused the Lakota’s spiritual and ethnic death
• Buffalo grazing restored 95 percent of native grasses on Cheyenne River
• Buffalo restoration is tied to restoring Native social and political structure
• Buffalo slaughter protects only about 3,000 cattle on wildlife-designated public land
• Buffalo were reduced from 50 million to 26 in the US
• Buffalo-to-cattle brucellosis transmission is practically impossible
• Canada banned Innu hunting while tolerating pilots killing caribou for antlers
• Canada dismissed Innu harm observations as unscientific while compensating settlers for identical damage
• Canada’s green-energy dams enable larger industrial destruction
• Canadian government advertised Innu territory as free of human habitation
• Cane-field burning loaded Everglades fish with mercury concentrated up the food chain
• Cheap hydro power from new dams lured the corporations that poisoned the river
• Cheyenne water-spirit knowledge was dismissed by lawyers until an elder’s armed stand
• Cheyennes faced total economic marginalization, cut off from both banks and border-town jobs.
• Civil disobedience against colonial courts becomes a process of psychological liberation
• Colonial conquest of hunters stems from shared peasant assumptions alien to hunting societies
• Colonial renaming erased Innu place-names like Patshetshunau
• Congress passed WELSA with only 12 members present in a voice vote.
• Conservation parks are too small for buffalo viability
• Corporate potato farming is replacing small farmers and degrading White Earth land and water.
• County housing-code enforcement criminalized a Seminole’s ancestral fire
• Distributed solar keeps village land free of utility easements
• Domesticating buffalo degrades their social structure and the land
• Drowned spruce forests leached mercury contaminating 37 percent of surveyed Innu
• Enslaving and impoverishing nature is no more tolerable than enslaving humans
• EPA rule redesigns quietly cut GM’s cleanup obligation by millions
• Everglades National Park creation displaced Seminole families from their homes
• Faye Brown frames Prairie Island siting as environmental racism against Indians
• Federal agencies funded tribal organizations to market nuclear waste siting.
• Federal commodity food programs perpetuate colonial dependency on Native lands
• Federal DOE funding steered national Native organizations toward nuclear waste siting.
• Federal Indian coal leases paid pennies per ton on coal worth dollars
• Federal selection of leaders distorts how whole nations make their decisions
• Federal services to tribes operate as bait-and-control like feeding livestock
• Federal wildlife-refuge logging supplied Potlatch mills from reservation lands.
• Fluoride emissions caused severe livestock losses among Mohawk dairy farmers
• General Motors paid only $507,000 for 25 years of PCB dumping
• Generational trauma makes 1997 buffalo slaughter replay 1855 massacre
• Government radiation estimates undercounted public exposure by up to 3,000-fold.
• Harney’s 1855 Little Thunder massacre killed close to 70 Brulé people
• Hawaiian customary land practice can override private paper title in court
• Health advisories restrict fish consumption most burdensome to Indigenous diet staples.
• Hopi villages refuse utility lines to prevent corporate land takings
• Hunting is the most sustainable economy for northern ecosystems
• Hydro dams and mercury dumping destroyed the Grassy Narrows river ecology.
• Hydro-Quebec resold Churchill Falls power at nine times its purchase price
• Industrial production must shift from a linear to a cyclical system to survive.
• Innu blockade secured a court-ordered environmental review
• Innu defended hunting as the core of their identity and language
• James Bay La Grande reservoirs now hold North America’s worst mercury contamination
• Lakota alcoholism and suicide rates vastly exceed national averages
• Land allotment and dam flooding drive current Lakota social pathology
• Land value resists quantification despite relentless market sale
• Language restoration is tied to on-the-land cultural practice and generational succession
• Mainstream environmental groups oppose tribal land return to retain management say
• Market purchase by a land trust is restoring endangered maple sugarbush at White Earth.
• Menominee sustained 140 years of harvest yet holds more timber than in 1854.
• Mercury poisoning collapsed the Grassy Narrows fishing economy and tripled welfare dependence.
• Modern humans carry hundreds of untested synthetic chemicals never present before 1920
• Mohawk land in New York fell to 14,600 acres through forced cessions
• Mohawks restore fish access through suspended-cage aquaculture above contaminated sediments
• Montana slaughtered over 2,500 Yellowstone buffalo in three years
• Most North American Indigenous languages will be extinct by 2050
• Mothers transmit concentrated industrial toxins to infants through breast milk
• Native Hawaiians are disproportionately poor and imprisoned despite being 19 percent of the state
• Native incommensurability claims and settler quantification cannot reconcile
• Native lands hold two-thirds of US uranium and a third of western low-sulfur coal
• Native North America is large and demographically solid despite land loss.
• NATO flight training noise would make Innu territory uninhabitable
• Navajo uranium legacy produces cancer rates far above the US average.
• Newfoundland approved mining on Innu land without Innu consent
• No documented case exists of wild buffalo transmitting brucellosis to cattle
• Non-Indians take the vast majority of game on the White Earth reservation.
• NSP knew for two decades its spent fuel pools would overflow
• Ongoing minority status itself generates chronic psychological stress for reservation Indians.
• Only one of eleven Superfund studies examined human health
• PCB effects are known mostly from accidental poisonings, not proactive research
• Physical resistance only shrunk, not stopped, forced flooding of Tuscarora land
• Prairie Island refused $220 million to accept a nuclear waste dump
• Prairie Island residents were informed of leaks only via radio and later reports
• Radio-collaring and daily tracking stress and kill Florida panthers
• Relational and intergenerational time is central to Indigenous worldviews.
• Resistance through litigation and land recovery is restoring White Earth forests and culture
• Restoring a buffalo commons would save the federal government money
• Seminole sanctuary for runaway slaves provoked the First Seminole War
• Seminoles see their own health decline as mirroring the endangered panther’s
• Since 1886 US courts have treated corporations as constitutional natural persons.
• Smithsonian anthropometry manufactured mixed-blood status to legalize land sales
• The ‘balance of convenience’ doctrine lets developers overturn injunctions once money is spent
• The 1848 land commission gave land awards to under one percent of Hawaiians
• The 1887 General Allotment Act cut reservation lands by two-thirds
• The BIA approved a Goshute waste lease with no exit clause
• The BIA sold Mdewakanton land rights for $178 with no local benefit
• The Churchill dam flooded nearly 5,700 square miles of Innu land
• The CRA victory funneled millions into restoring Cheyenne ranches and farms.
• The DOE recruited tribes to take nuclear waste by invoking Native spiritual duty.
• The government routed nuclear fallout toward Shoshone territory and miscounted their exposure.
• The government’s own environmental reviews of its programs are structurally biased
• The Great Plains cattle and monoculture economy is failing
• The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is among the world’s oldest living governments
• The Hudson Bay Company deliberately destroyed Innu economic independence into serfdom
• The judge ruled Canadian title to Innu land rested on a 17th-century fiction
• The Mohawk must absorb industrial costs while corporations never change
• The Navy released millions of gallons of radioactive waste into Pearl Harbor
• The northern plains farm economy remains in deep crisis
• The Ogallala Aquifer may be depleted within 30 years
• The proposed Seventh Generation Amendment would constitutionally protect future generations’ access to common resources.
• The US broke truce flags and used bloodhounds against the Seminoles
• The US lost its costliest war to a few hundred Seminole guerrillas
• Thousands of Native Hawaiians have died still waiting for promised homestead land
• Traditional Seminole land sustains life where industrial farms are dead
• Traditional Seminoles formally petitioned the US in 1954 to be left alone
• Traditional Seminoles hold land only through a white family’s goodwill lease
• Two centuries of court rulings redefined the constitutional common good as corporate profit.
• US statehood for Hawaii violated UN decolonization law and made Hawaiians legal wards
• US tribal lands are prime targets for nuclear and toxic waste disposal.
• Voisey’s Bay will discharge acid-generating waste into pristine seas
• Western grid links Montana power production to distant coastal demand
• Wetlands function as the kidneys that filter whole ecosystems
• White Earth is the seat of LaDuke’s own land-recovery work.
• White Earth’s clearcut funded Weyerhaeuser and lasted a century.
• Who controls land destiny is a live question about wealth versus prayer throughout society
• Wind destroys and lumber ‘progresses,’ though both fell the same trees.
• Yellowstone National Park was seized from Native people promised the territory