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The River Is in Us - Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community (Hardcover)
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The River Is in Us - Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community (Hardcover)
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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.
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