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The American Indian Movement, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, burst
into that turbulent time with passion, anger, and radical acts of
resistance. Spurred by Civil Rights movement, Native people began
to protest the decades -- centuries -- of corruption, racism, and
abuse they had endured. They argued for political, social and
cultural change, and they got attention. The photographs of
activist Dick Bancroft, a key documentarian of AIM, provide a
stunningly intimate view of this major piece of American history
from 1970 to 1981. Veteran journalist Laura Waterman wittstock, who
participated in events in Washington, DC, has interviewed a host of
surviving participants to tell the stories behind the images. The
words of Russell Means, Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie
Benton Banai, Pat Bellanger, Elaine Salinas, Winona LaDuke, Bill
Means, Ken Tilsen, Larry Leventhal, Jose Barreiro, and others tell
the stories: the take-overs of federal buildings and the Winter Dam
in Wisconsin, the founding of survival schools in the Twin Cities,
the Wounded Knee trails, international conferences for indigenous
rights, the Trial of Broken Treaties Caravan and the Longest Walk
for Survival, powwows and camps and United Nations actions. This is
the inside record of a movement that began to change a nation.
In the summer of 1881, when the ship that dropped off the Lady
Franklin Bay Expedition sailed for home, these twenty-five men
could not have known that only a handful would survive their
three-year assignment. Commanded by Lt. A. W. Greely, this was the
first attempt of the United States to engage in scientific study of
the Arctic. Support of promised re-supply never reached them,
leaving the men abandoned by the very government that had sent them
up. Beset by gelid cold, scurvy, and the madness of starvation the
men start to die. Sgt. Brainard, a man of energy and integrity,
alone possesses the ability to hold off their utter moral
degeneration, yet cannibalism takes place. The author has used
letters and journal entries to ensure immediacy to an Arctic story
that really happened, that pits men, in their fight to stay alive,
against their better selves and the consequences of becoming
bestial.
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Wilderness
Act the landmark piece of legislation to set aside and protect
pristine parts of the American landscape. This anniversary edition
of Wilderness Ethics should help put the many issues surrounding
wilderness in focus."
When Backwood Ethics was first published in 1979, the Watermans'
"new ethic" was enthusiastically received by environmentalists,
hikers, and wilderness managers. This expanded edition brings the
basics of low-impact hiking, camping and cooking, and alpine
management into the 21st century. Here the authors take a fresh
look at ways to protect the physical environment of our mountains
and backcountry.
In this environmental call to action, Laura and Guy Waterman look
beyond preserving the ecology of the backcountry to focus on what
they call its spiritual dimension--its fragile, untamed wildness.
"Without some management, wildness cannot survive the number of
people who seek to enjoy it," they write. "But with too much
management, or the wrong kind, we can destroy the spiritual
component of wildness in our zeal to preserve its physical side."
Trailside huts and lodges, large groups seeking "wilderness
experiences," federal and state regulations, and technology such as
radios, cell phones, global positioning devices, and emergency
helicopters, all have an impact on our experience. With humor and
insight, the Watermans explore these difficult wilderness
management issues. They ask us to evaluate the impact that even
"environmentally conscious" values have on the wilderness
experience, and to ask the question: What are we trying to
preserve?
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