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In 1974 Federal Judge George H. Boldt issued one of the most
sweeping rulings in the history of the Pacific Northwest, affirming
the treaty rights of Northwest tribal fishermen and allocating to
them 50 percent of the harvestable catch of salmon and steelhead.
Among the Indians testifying in Judge Boldtās courtroom were
Nisqually tribal leader Billy Frank, Jr., and his 95-year-old
father, whose six acres along the Nisqually River, known as
Frankās Landing, had been targeted for years by state game
wardens in the so-called Fish Wars. By the 1960s the Landing had
become a focal point for the assertion of tribal treaty rights in
the Northwest. It also lay at the moral center of the tribal
sovereignty movement nationally. The confrontations at the Landing
hit the news and caught the conscience of many. Like the
schoolhouse steps at Little Rock, or the bridge at Selma, Frankās
Landing came to signify a threshold for change, and Billy Frank,
Jr., became a leading architect of consensus, a role he continues
today as one of the most colorful and accomplished figures in the
modern history of the Pacific Northwest. In Messages from Frankās
Landing, Charles Wilkinson explores the broad historical, legal,
and social context of Indian fishing rights in the Pacific
Northwest, providing a dramatic account of the people and issues
involved. He draws on his own decades of experience as a lawyer
working with Indian people, and focuses throughout on Billy Frank
and the river flowing past Frankās Landing. In all aspects of
Frankās life as an activist, from legal settlements negotiated
over salmon habitats destroyed by hydroelectric plants, to
successful negotiations with the U.S. Army for environmental
protection of tribal lands, Wilkinson points up the significance of
the traditional Indian world view - the powerful and direct legacy
of Frankās father, conveyed through generations of Indian people
who have crafted a practical working philosophy and a way of life.
Drawing on many hours spent talking and laughing with Billy Frank
while canoeing the Nisqually watershed, Wilkinson conveys words of
respect and responsibility for the earth we inhabit and for the
diverse communities the world encompasses. These are the messages
from Frankās Landing. Wilkinson brings welcome clarity to complex
legal issues, deepening our insight into a turbulent period in the
political and environmental history of the Northwest.
2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring
memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, ""I was born a
Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have lived.""
She proceeds to narrate the first eighty-three years of her life,
which are characterized by her tireless campaigns to reverse the
forced termination of the Menominee tribe and to ensure sovereignty
and self-determination for all tribes. Deer grew up in poverty on
the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, but with the encouragement
of her mother and teachers, she earned degrees in social work from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia University. Armed
with a first-rate education, an iron will, and a commitment to
justice, she went from being a social worker in Minneapolis to
leading the struggle for the restoration of the Menominees' tribal
status and trust lands. Having accomplished that goal, she moved on
to teach American Indian Studies at UW-Madison, to hold a
fellowship at Harvard, to work for the Native American Rights Fund,
to run unsuccessfully for Congress, and to serve as Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs in the Clinton
administration. Now in her eighties, Deer remains as committed as
ever to human rights, especially the rights of American Indians. A
deeply personal story, written with humor and honesty, this book is
a testimony to the ability of one individual to change the course
of history through hard work, perseverance, and an unwavering
commitment to social justice.
Charles Wilkinson's The Glazier's Choice is the first substantial
gathering of work by a writer who has published two previous short
collections of poetry. Many of these pieces, written over a
ten-year period, are characterised by a powerful sense of place, a
consistently lyrical voice and a preoccupation with the liminal,
numinous and half hidden. Wilkinson's often oblique narratives
eschew the first person in favour of a verse that is open and
various in its technical procedures, neither mainstream nor
egregiously avant-garde. A melancholic strain is sometimes leavened
by humour and playful use of form.
The Colorado River Basin's importance cannot be overstated. Its
living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people,
contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument,
and wide swaths of other public lands, and encompasses ancestral
homelands of twenty-nine Native American tribes. John Wesley
Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran, explorer, scientist, and
adept federal administrator, articulated a vision for Euro-American
colonization of the "Arid Region" that has indelibly shaped the
basin-a pattern that looms large not only in western history, but
also in contemporary environmental and social policy. One hundred
and fifty years after Powell's epic 1869 Colorado River Exploring
Expedition, this volume revisits Powell's vision, examining its
historical character and its relative influence on the Colorado
River Basin's cultural and physical landscape in modern times. In
three parts, the volume unpacks Powell's ideas on water, public
lands, and Native Americans-ideas at once innovative, complex, and
contradictory. With an eye toward climate change and a host of
related challenges facing the basin, the volume turns to the
future, reflecting on how-if at all-Powell's legacy might inform
our collective vision as we navigate a new "Great Unknown."
2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring
memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, 'I was born a
Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have lived.' She
proceeds to narrate the first eighty-three years of her life, which
are characterized by her tireless campaigns to reverse the forced
termination of the Menominee tribe and to ensure sovereignty and
self-determination for all tribes. Deer grew up in poverty on the
Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, but with the encouragement of
her mother and teachers, she earned degrees in social work from the
University of Wisconsin - Madison and Columbia University. Armed
with a first-rate education, an iron will, and a commitment to
justice, she went from being a social worker in Minneapolis to
leading the struggle for the restoration of the Menominees' tribal
status and trust lands. Having accomplished that goal, she moved on
to teach American Indian Studies at UW - Madison, to hold a
fellowship at Harvard, to work for the Native American Rights Fund,
to run unsuccessfully for Congress, and to serve as Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs in the Clinton
administration. Now in her eighties, Deer remains as committed as
ever to human rights, especially the rights of American Indians. A
deeply personal story, written with humor and honesty, this book is
a testimony to the ability of one individual to change the course
of history through hard work, perseverance, and an unwavering
commitment to social justice.
The Colorado River Basin's importance cannot be overstated. Its
living river system supplies water to roughly forty million people,
contains Grand Canyon National Park, Bears Ears National Monument,
and wide swaths of other public lands, and encompasses ancestral
homelands of twenty-nine Native American tribes. John Wesley
Powell, a one-armed Civil War veteran, explorer, scientist, and
adept federal administrator, articulated a vision for Euro-American
colonization of the "Arid Region" that has indelibly shaped the
basin-a pattern that looms large not only in western history, but
also in contemporary environmental and social policy. One hundred
and fifty years after Powell's epic 1869 Colorado River Exploring
Expedition, this volume revisits Powell's vision, examining its
historical character and its relative influence on the Colorado
River Basin's cultural and physical landscape in modern times. In
three parts, the volume unpacks Powell's ideas on water, public
lands, and Native Americans-ideas at once innovative, complex, and
contradictory. With an eye toward climate change and a host of
related challenges facing the basin, the volume turns to the
future, reflecting on how-if at all-Powell's legacy might inform
our collective vision as we navigate a new "Great Unknown."
In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years
representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little
known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He
discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the
underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian
world. A Lawyer in Indian Country presents vignettes of reservation
life and recounts some of the memorable legal cases that illustrate
the challenges faced by individual Indians and tribes. As the
senior attorney arguing U.S. v. Washington, Ziontz was a party to
the historic 1974 Boldt decision that affirmed the Pacific
Northwest tribes' treaty fishing rights, with ramifications for
tribal rights nationwide. His work took him to reservations in
Montana, Wyoming, and Minnesota, as well as Washington and Alaska,
and he describes not only the work of a tribal attorney but also
his personal entry into the life of Indian country. Ziontz
continued to fight for tribal rights into the late 1990s, as the
Makah tribe of Washington sought to resume its traditional whale
hunts. Throughout his book, Ziontz traces his own path through this
public history - one man's pursuit of a life built around the
principles of integrity and justice.
In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years
representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little
known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He
discusses the growth and maturation of tribal government and the
underlying tensions between Indian society and the non-Indian
world. A Lawyer in Indian Country presents vignettes of reservation
life and recounts some of the memorable legal cases that illustrate
the challenges faced by individual Indians and tribes. As the
senior attorney arguing U.S. v. Washington, Ziontz was a party to
the historic 1974 Boldt decision that affirmed the Pacific
Northwest tribes' treaty fishing rights, with ramifications for
tribal rights nationwide. His work took him to reservations in
Montana, Wyoming, and Minnesota, as well as Washington and Alaska,
and he describes not only the work of a tribal attorney but also
his personal entry into the life of Indian country. Ziontz
continued to fight for tribal rights into the late 1990s, as the
Makah tribe of Washington sought to resume its traditional whale
hunts. Throughout his book, Ziontz traces his own path through this
public history - one man's pursuit of a life built around the
principles of integrity and justice.
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