The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1517903033 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorElizabeth Hoover is Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University, where she serves as a co-leader in Brown’s Superfund Research Program Community Engagement Core, as well as a member of the executive committee to develop Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Through in-depth research into archives, newspapers, and public meetings, as well as numerous interviews with community members and scientists, Hoover shows the exact efforts taken by Akwesasne’s massive research project and the grassroots efforts to preserve the Native culture and lands. When she brought her findings to environmental health researchers, Cook sparked the United States’ first large-scale community-based participatory research project.In The River Is in Us, author Elizabeth Hoover takes us deep into this remarkable community that has partnered with scientists and developed grassroots programs to fight the contamination of its lands and reclaim its health and culture. Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in upstate New York that is downwind and downstream from three Superfund sites. For years she witnessed elevated rates of miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer in her town, ultimately drawing connections between environmental contamination and these maladies. She also doc
Elizabeth Hoover is Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University, where she serves as a co-leader in Brown’s Superfund Research Program Community Engagement Core, as well as a member of the executive committee to develop Native American and Indigenous Studies.