Voices From the Odeyak

Voices From the Odeyak

Voices From the Odeyak

Voices From the Odeyak

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Overview

On April 23, 1990, after a five-week journey from Hudson Bay to the Hudson River, the Odeyak landed at the Battery for Earth Day. Half-Cree, half-Inuit, the 24-foot freighter canoe, plowing across the Manhattan seascape, was a strange small vessel build in the dark Arctic winter to carry a message from two First Nations of the northern wilderness to a reclaiming of Times Square for Mother Earth.

Along with the Crees' and the Inuit's hopes and fears for their children and for the future of their river, the Odeyak carried a simple request. The Great Whale Hydroelectric Project, the first part of James Bay II, will destroy the natural economy of the Great Whale region, killing the way of life the Crees and the Inuit have followed since time immemorial. It came to ask the people of New England and New York not to buy the power.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459720886
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 09/01/1993
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 232
Sales rank: 706,223
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Michael Posluns has been writing about First Nations concerns since 1970. In 1973, he co-authored The Fourth World: An Indian Reality with George Manuel. He produced radio documentaries on the Long House Confederacy while working as an assistant editor of Akwesasne Notes. In 1983, he co-authored The First Nations and the Crown: A Study of a Trust Relationship for the House of Commons Special Committee on Indian Self-Government. In 1986, he wrote A Practical Guide to Indian Ontario, a portrait of traditional family life in three First nations cultures. In 1990, he edited Songs for the People: Teachings on the Natural Way., the writings of Art Solomon a Nishnawbe elder.


Michael Posluns has been writing about First Nations concerns since 1970. In 1973, he co-authored The Fourth World: An Indian Reality with George Manuel. He produced radio documentaries on the Long House Confederacy while working as an assistant editor of Akwesasne Notes. In 1983, he co-authored The First Nations and the Crown: A Study of a Trust Relationship for the House of Commons Special Committee on Indian Self-Government.


Peter "Pete" Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and activist.

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To read the headlines in the newspapers, to listen to television, you would think that Americans are selfish people who are only interested in their own pleasure. You would think that Americans don’t feel any concern about the lives of other people. You would think that American people are not concerned about the land that they are taking from the Indians up in the north of Canada so that they can have cheaper electricity. I think the newspapers are wrong. I think the television doesn’t tell us the whole story. I think there are millions of Americans who will say "No."

When they realize that we are taking the homes of people who have lived there for thousands of years, people who took care of the land as they hunted and trapped and fished and who want to keep on living on their land — there are Americans who will say "No. That’s not fair to take their land. We may have to spend a little more for our electricity. But we’ll find something. We can learn how to use solar power. We can start using wind power." There are a whole lot of things we can do rather than to take away the land that belongs to these people.

Excerpt from foreword / Pete Seeger’s greetings to a reunion of Odeyak travellers and hosts at the Beacon Sloop Club, on April 11, 1991.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Pete Seeger
Preface
Acknowledgement
The Cast of Characters
Maps
Cree and Inuit Places Mentioned
The Odeyak’s Journey from Ottawa to Vermont
The Odeyak in New York
1. Manhattan Transfer
- The Big Apple
- Pier 26 and Battery Park
- Earth Day - Times Square
- Visiting the Shinnecocks
- Goose Break
2. Building the Odeyak
- The Place to Which the Whales Come
- Returning the Gift
- The Healing Vessel
- The Boat Builder
- Departing Great Whale
- Photo Section: The Odeyak Travellers and Their Hosts
3. The Whale and the Seal - Traditional Way of Life
- Commonality and Diversity
- The Cree of Whapmagoostui
- The Inuit of Kuujjuaraapik
- A Brief Political History of Ungava
- Canadian Boundaries - Native Realities
4. The Bulldozer - James Bay
- The James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement
- A Sense of Uncertainty
- Freshwater Seals
5. A Canadian Wilderness
- Over the Ice to Chissasibi
- Launching in the Ottawa
- Kanesatake - Before the Oka Crisis
- In the Mohawk Longhouse
6. Odeyak Discovers Lake Champlain
- The Hero Island Schools
- Vermont Welcome
- Meeting the Governor
- The Vermont Public Service Board - Cutting the Goose
- The Towns Vote
7. The Clearwater’s Blanket
- North River Friends
- Toshi Seeger - Grandmother of the Hudson
- A Springtime Route
- Crisis At Glens Falls
- At the New York State Capitol
- Easter on the Hudson
- Last Stop - Yonkers
8. River Talk, Legal Talk
- Flyways and Byways
- The Moral Equivalent of Famine
- The Plea for Peace
- The Campaign to Save Great Whale, 1990-1992
- The Battle for James Bay in the Courts
9. The Power and the Glory
- Disregard of the Law - Contempt for the First Nations
- The Need for American Concern
- Hydro Contract Cancelled by New York Governor
- On Becoming Fully Responsible
- Environmental Assessment Starts
- Self-Determination
A Post Script, October, 1993
Bibliography
Index

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