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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
SRIC Extras

"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."

A Field Guide to Sprawl
Dolores Hayden with Aerial Photographs by Jim Wark
New York: W.W. Norton, 2004
128 pp., $24.95, hardcover
ISBN: 0-393-73125-1
 
 
 

Sprawl - "to cause to spread out carelessly or awkwardly."

— Mirriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition

A Field Guide to Sprawl is a both a tongue-in-cheek and a very serious guide to sprawl. Complete with aerial photographs to illustrate various sprawl terminology, it is a highly educational guide to understanding building/real estate patterns in our communities. Some of the terms Hayden defines range from "Big Boxes" (large, windowless commercial development), to "Greenfields" (housing developments built on/adjacent to farmland), from the literal "Leapfrog" housing developments to the comical term "Litter on a stick" (a.k.a. billboards). She even has a visual/literal definition for "Tract Mansion." A Field Guide to Sprawl is a must-have visual dictionary for teachers, activists, and others who have struggled to explain the concept of sprawl in mere words.

— Annette Aguayo

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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