Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy's Encounter With the Native World - Hardcover

Hunter, Robert

 
9781578050482: Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy's Encounter With the Native World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1578050480 ISBN 13: 9781578050482
Verlag: Sierra Club Books, 2000

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The cofounder of Greenpeace shares the battles he fought on behalf of native peoples, including his journey with British Columbian Indian chiefs to intercept the 1992 Columbus 500year commemorative fleet, where he managed to extract an apology from Spain for its treatment of indigenous peoples.

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Robert Hunter has long been an articulate voice for radical activism. He was the first president of the Greenpeace Foundation and served on the front lines in the organization's encounters at sea over issues such as drift-netting practices and whaling. He is the co-author of Occupied Canada, which won the coveted Governor-General's Award in 1991, as well as the author of ten other books. A resident of Toronto, Hunter is currently a television reporter and print journalist covering environmental issues.

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r's courageous activism as a founder of the Greenpeace movement (and the man behind the Rainbow Warrior theme) often placed him shoulder-to-shoulder with Native peoples fighting the same "good fight" on behalf of Mother Earth. In Red Blood, this straight-talking storyteller takes readers along for a wild ride as he recounts some of his most dramatic escapades in the fight for social and environmental justice.

Hunter's adventures include a spectacular (and at times hilarious) Caribbean journey aboard the Sea Shepherd II with a group of British Columbian Indian chiefs. Their mission: intercept the Columbus 500-year commemorative fleet of 1992 and, with cameras rolling, extract an official apology from Spain for the resulting centuries of unfair treatment of indigenous peoples. Hunter also describes a ceremony in which he was adopted as an honorary Brother of the Kwakiutl; a transforming experience in a Cree sweat lodge; and a tense sacred powwow with radicals of the N

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Verlag
Sierra Club Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1578050480
ISBN 13 
9781578050482
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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