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Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming »

Authors: Winona LaDuke
ISBN-13: 9780896087125, ISBN-10: 0896087123
Format: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

LaDuke is a well-know Native American organizer, environmentalist, and author. She teaches Native Environmentalism at the University of Minnesota.

LaDuke maintains that a healthy environment and sovereignty for Native nations are requisites for Native American spiritual health.

	What is sacred?	11
Pt. 1	Sacred lands and sacred places
	God, squirrels, and the universe : the Mt. Graham International Observatory and the University of Arizona	19
	Salt, water, blood, and coal : mining in the Southwest	33
	Klamath land and life	47
Pt. 2	Ancestors, images, and our lives
	Imperial anthropology : the ethics of collecting	67
	Quilled cradleboard covers, cultural patrimony, and Wounded Knee	87
	Vampires in the New World : blood, academia, and human genetics	113
	Masks in the new millennium	131
Pt. 3	Seeds and medicine
	Three sisters : recovery of traditional agriculture at Cayuga, Mohawk, and Oneida communities	153
	Wild rice : maps, genes and patents	167
	Food as medicine : the recovery of traditional foods to heal the people	191
Pt. 4	Relatives
	Return of the horse nation	213
	Namewag : sturgeon and people in the Great Lakes region	227
	Recovering power to slow climate change	237
	About Winona LaDuke