Introduction. The toxic invasion of Native America ; The descendants of Little Thunder ; White Earth -- 1. Akwesasne : Mohawk mothers' milk and PCBs. The Mohawk legacy ; Industry takes over ; PCB contamination at Akwesasne ; The Mothers' Milk Project ; GM goes global ; The great law of peace and good mind -- 2. Seminoles : at the heart of the Everglades. The Seminole Wars ; The land ; The animals ; The reservation and the village ; The Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. ; The independent traditional Seminole nation ; The panther and the Seminoles ; The panther reservations ; The people and the ceremony -- 3. Nitassinan : the hunter and the peasant. The peasants and the hunters ; The military and the bombs ; Shutting down the runway ; The liberation from legal colonialism ; Dams ; James Bay Dams ; Voisey's Bay ; Davis Inlet : the future for the environmental refugees ; Bloodties -- 4. Northern Cheyenne : a fire in the coal fields. The beautiful people ; The Indian Wars : land and gold ; Dull Knife's Band ; Coming home to the coal fields ; The Northern Cheyenne and AMAX ; Economic justice and ethnostress ; Return to high school -- 5. Nuclear waste : dumping on the Indians. The Nevada Test Site and the Western Shoshone ; Pressures build to dump on the Indians ; Grassy narrows ; Resisting the MRS Program ; A private initiative in the Goshutes ; Prairie Island ; Yucca Mountain ; The need for alternatives -- 6. White Earth : a lifeway in the forest. Gitchimookomaanag, the white man ; White Earth : the appropriation of a homeland ; The land struggle continues ; The White Earth Land Settlement Act ; Extra-territorial treaty rights ; White Earth Land Recovery Project ; Noopiming : in the woods ; Gaa-Noodin-Oke : the windmaker ; Noojwiijigamigishkawajig : finding neighbors (friends) ; Minobimaatisiiwin : the good life -- 7. Buffalo nations, buffalo peoples. Buffalo and prairie ecosystems ; Land grabbing and buffalo killing ; The buffalo are prairie makers ; Community health and buffalo ; The wild herds : wood buffalo and Yellowstone ; The Yellowstone herd ; Healing the community, healing the buffalo nation ; Buffalo commons ; Cowboys and Indians one hundred years later ; Pte Gyate : the buffalo nation ; Braids of a grandmother's hair ; "Bringing back the way" -- 8. Hawai'i : the birth of land and its preservation by the hands of the people. The birth of land ; The Haole arrival ; The militarization of the Pacific ; Kaho'o'lawe ; Endangered ecosystems and voyeuristic vacations ; Birthing a nation ; Curating a temple -- 9. NativeSUN : determining a future. The energy crisis ; Colonialism and self-reliance ; Alternative energy and the future -- 10. The seventh generation. Rethinking the Constitution.