Introduction: Towards a land narrative -- [1] Askîy / Land -- Removals and long walks -- "This scrap of earth" : Louise Erdrich, environmentalism, and the postallotment reservation -- [2] Nîpîy / Water -- "An ancient pact, now broken" : activism and environmental justice in Solar Storms and From the River's Edge -- Climate change as indigenous dispossession for the 21st century : the United Houma Nation of Louisiana and the Alaska Native villages of Kivalina and Shishmaref -- Conclusion: "Idle no more" : First Nations women and environmental struggles
Summary:
Dispossession and removal are major subjects in understanding the relationship of American Indians to their ancestral lands. This book is the first treatment of these complex topics to focus on women writers. The author's emphasis on environmental issues makes her book as important to ecocritics as to students of literary criticism, women's studies, and Native American studies. -- from dust jacket.
