Recovering the sacred : the power of naming and claiming
(Book)

What is sacred?

Part 1. Sacred lands and sacred places. God, squirrels, and the universe : The Mt. Graham International Observatory and the University of Arizona: The Apache and the wars ; Raising Arizona ; In search of the authentic Apaches

Salt, water, blood, and coal : mining in the southwest: "I am as much of the clouds as they are of me" ; Asabakeshiinh, the Spider ; The Mormons, the lawyers, and the coal ; Sucking the Mother dry ; The Salt Mothers still rests

Klamath land and life: The stronghold ; Unhealed wounds of federal policy ; Termination: the trees and the land ; Edison Chiloquin and tribal restoration ; A river runs through it ; Valuable stuff

part 2. Ancestors, images, and our lives. Imperial anthropology : The ethics of collection: "I am a man" ; Ishi's descendants ; The ethics of collecting ; Our relatives are poisoned ; Spoils of war

Quilled cradleboard covers, cultural patrimony, and Wounded Knee: Cankpe Opi: Wounded Knee ; Cante Ognaka: the heart of everything that is ; The road to wounded knee ; The killing fields ; The aftermath and the Medals of Honor ; The collection ; The spirits still linger ; NAGPRA: the Homecoming Law ; Healing and reconciliation

Vampires in the New World : Blood, academia, and human genetics; Captain Hook and the biopirates

Masks in the new millennium: The native in the game ; The fighting Sioux ; Ralph the Nazi ; In the spirit of Crazy Horse ; Defense of spirit

part 3. Seeds and medicine. Three sisters : Recovery of traditional agriculture of Cayuga, Mohawk and Oneida Communities: Cayugas remember ; Monocultures of the mind of the land ; Peacemaking among neighbors ; Kanatiohareke: the Mohawk's clean pot ; The Oneida's Tsyunhehkwa: "It provides life for us"

Wild rice : Maps, genes, and patents: Manoominike: making wild rice ; The price of rice ; Indian harvest or Dutch harvest? ; Gene hunters and the map of the wild rice genome ; Patents and biopiracy ; Academic freedom and ethics ; Pollen drift and those ducks ; Intellectual property ; Water levels and bad development projects ; Where the food grows on the water: Rice Lake and the Crandon Mine ; Tribal laws and cultural property rights

Food and medicine : The recovery of traditional foods to heal the people: Traditional agricultural and biodiversity ; "Let them eat grass" ; What we eat makes us sick ; They can't even eat grass: Navajo livestock reduction ; Genes or colonialism? ; Food as medicine ; Dream of wild health ; Mino Miijim ; The place of the gardens

part 4. Relatives. Return of the horse nation : The horse nation ; The Wallowa Valley homecoming

Namewag: Sturgeion and people in the Great Lakes Region: Deconstruction at its best

Recovering power to slow climate change: The economics of energy ; Taté: the wind is Wakan ; Spitting or pissing in the wind? ; Global warming and the quality of ice ; Power, inequalityy, and environmental injustice ; Restructuring the energy industry ; Democratizing power production.