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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461561603321

Autore

Spagna Ana Maria

Titolo

Reclaimers / Ana Maria Spagna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, [Washington] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-295-80627-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

333.71/5309795

Soggetti

Women environmentalists

Travel

Rivers - Environmental aspects

Reclamation of land

Mountains - Environmental aspects

Indians of North America - Land tenure

Environmental protection

Ecology

NATURE - Environmental Conservation & Protection

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Real Estate - General

Rivers - Environmental aspects - Northwest, Pacific

Mountains - Environmental aspects - Northwest, Pacific

Indians of North America - Land tenure - Northwest, Pacific

Women environmentalists - Northwest, Pacific

Reclamation of land - Northwest, Pacific

Environmental protection - Northwest, Pacific

Biographies.

Electronic books.

Pacific Northwest

Northwest, Pacific Description and travel

Northwest, Pacific Biography

Northwest, Pacific Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Prologue: The Low Ground -- Part I.A Red-Lettered Sign -- Homeland -- Willkommen -- Revisit -- Remediation -- Talk Talk -- Part II. Face-to-Face -- The Red Fox and the Tule Elk -- Tending -- Without an Invite -- The Circle of Life -- What Now? -- Part III. When the Walls Come Tumbling Down -- Unequivocal -- She Who Watches -- Bypass -- Restored ... Salvaged -- Hope without Hope -- No Difference at All -- Coda: The High Ground.

Sommario/riassunto

"For most of the past century, Humbug Valley, a forest-hemmed meadow sacred to the Mountain Maidu tribe, was in the grip of a utility company. Washington's White Salmon River was saddled with a fish-obstructing, inefficient dam, and the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland was unacknowledged within the boundaries of Death Valley National Park. Until people decided to reclaim them. In Reclaimers, Ana Maria Spagna drives an aging Buick up and down the long strip of West Coast mountain ranges--the Panamints, the Sierras, the Cascades--and alongside rivers to meet the people, many of them wise women, who persevered for decades with little hope of success to make changes happen. In uncovering their heroic stories, Spagna seeks a way for herself, and for all of us, to take back and to make right in a time of unsettling ecological change. Ana Maria Spagna is the author of several books, most recently Potluck : Community on the Edge of Wilderness"--Publishers website.