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• Title:Recovering the sacred : the power of naming and claiming / Winona LaDuke.
  
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• Author/Creator:LaDuke, Winona.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : Between the Lines, 2005.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: E98.R3 L33 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: E98.R3 L33 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indians of North America--Religion.
  Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies.
  Indians, Treatment of--North America.
  Sacred space--Canada.
  Sacred space--United States.
  
• Description:294 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:An overview of efforts by Native Americans to regain cultural and genetic patrimony and the conditions needed for traditional spiritual practices, including tribal histories, analysis of changes to nutrition, economy, and physical environment, and actions taken toward pollution abatement, dam removal, land and cultural reclamation, and alternative energy production.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1896357954
  9781896357959
  
• Contents:What is sacred?
  Pt. 1. Sacred lands and sacred places. God, squirrels, and the universe: the Mt. Graham International Observatory and the University of Arizona
  Salt, water, blood, and coal: mining in the southwest
  Klamath land and life
  Pt. 2. Ancestors, images, and their lives. Imperial anthropology: the ethics of collecting
  Quilled cradleboard covers, cultural patrimony, and wounded knee
  Vampires in the new world: blood, academia, and human genetics
  Masks in the new millennium
  Pt. 3. Seeds and medicine. Three sisters: recovery of traditional agriculture at Cayuga, Mohawk, and Oneida communities
  Wild rice: maps, genes, and patents
  Food as medicine: the recovery of traditional foods to heal the people
  Pt. 4. Relatives. Return of the Horse Nation
  Namewag: sturgeon and people in the Great Lakes Region
  Recovering power to slow climate change.