Voices from the Earth: Current Issue

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HOMELAND: Four Portraits of Native Action
Gail Small: The Coal Wars
Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Lame Deer, Montana
Evon Peter: The People and the Caribou Are One
Arctic Village, Alaska
Rita & Mitchel Capitan: Yellowcake, New Mexico
Navajo Reservation, New Mexico
Barry Dana: A People and Their River
Penobscot River, Maine
Winona LaDuke
Book Reviews
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"There's a prophecy, it's called voice form the north, there's gonna come a time when a voice from north is gonna rise. When that voice from the north rises, it signifies a time for human kind to change their ways."

The following books were reviewed in this issue of Voices.
 

	The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience Wangari Maathai New York :Lantern Books, 2004
	The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frighteningly True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor Ken Silverstein New York: Villard Books, 2004
	A Field Guide to Sprawl Dolores Hayden with Aerial Photographs by Jim Wark New York: W.W. Norton, 2004

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Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action has won The Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award for Documentary Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and The Audience Award for Documentary Film.

Homeland was shot on film by cinematographer, Dyanna Taylor; directed by veteran documentary filmmaker, Roberta Grossman, executive produced by Lisa B. Thomas and produced by Katahdin Productions/The Katahdin Foundation. Composer Todd Boekelheide created the music for the film.

 

You can help stop uranium mining on Diné lands by: Writing New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to support publicly the Navajo Nation uranium mining ban: Office of the Governor, 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Room 400, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Or call his office at: (505) 476-2200. Writing Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., and Navajo Council Speaker Lawrence Morgan, telling them you support the Navajo Nation uranium ban: P.O. Box 9000, Window Rock, AZ 86515. Making a generous, tax-deductible donation to ENDAUM, c/o SRIC, P.O. Box 4524, Albuquerque, NM 87196. (Credit card donations are accepted, please call us at 505/262-1862 for processing, or online through Network for Good.) NAVAJO NATION PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL BANNING URANIUM MINING AND MILLING Crownpoint, N.M., April 29, 2005. Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., today signed what is believed to be the first Native American tribal law banning uranium mining and milling. With dozens of community members and dignitaries looking on, Shirley signed the Diné Natural Resources Protection Act (DNRPA) of 2005, which was passed by the Navajo Nation Council by a vote of 63-19 on April 19. As amended by the Council during floor debate, the act states, "No person shall engage in uranium mining and processing on any sites within Navajo Indian Country." The law is based on the Fundamental Laws of the Diné, which are already codified in Navajo statutes. The act finds that based on those fundamental laws, "certain substances in the Earth (doo nal yee dah) that are harmful to the people should not be disturbed, and that the people now know that uranium is one such substance, and therefore, that its extraction should be avoided as traditional practice and prohibited by Navajo law." See Press Release