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Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People : Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action - Kari Marie Norgaard

Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People

Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action

By: Kari Marie Norgaard

Hardcover | 13 September 2019

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Once the third largest salmon-producing stream in the Western United States, the Klamath River has, as of 2014, fallen to only 4% of its previous productivity. This gives the once wealthy Karuk Tribe the dubious honor of having one of the most dramatic and recent diet shifts in North America. Unable to fulfill their traditional fishermen roles, Karuk people are now among the most impoverished in the state. In Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People, noted environmental sociologist Kari Norgaard investigates how their inability to fish affected the sense of identity and self-esteem of Karuk men. How does environmental degradation inscribe racialized power relations or do the work of colonial violence? Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People tells a story set in the cultural and political experiences of the Karuk Tribe, while expanding theoretical conversations on health, identity, food, race, and gender that preoccupy many disciplines today.

Industry Reviews
"Colonization, Fire Suppression, and Indigenous Resurgence in the Face of Climate Change" excerpt of Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People in Yes! Magazine
https://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/fire-climate-change-indigenous-colonization-20191021- Yes! Magazine
"On indigenous land management, and a space beyond colonialism," interview with Kari Marie Norgaard
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1117-kari-marie-norgaard- This is Hell! podcast
"This book is a beacon from which to discover Indigenous theorists such as Nick Estes, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Winona LaDuke, and poets such as Sherwin Bitsui, Kim Shuck, and Jake Skeets. At its core, this is a deeply argued book that explicates the Karuk's ethos of caring interconnectivity, while pushing each reader to grapple with the depth of settler colonialism. Further, it demands that we all-scholars, writers, readers-take this reality seriously in beginning to address the destruction and violence undergirding the United States."- Orion Magazine
Sydney Environment Institute podcast with Professor Kari Marie Norgaard
http://sydney.edu.au/environment-institute/publications/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/- Sydney Environment Institute podcast
"Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People is a terrific book that impressively brings together seemingly far-flung concepts in thoughtful ways. Norgaard makes an insightful argument about how 'nature' functions within race-making, weaving sociological theories into an interdisciplinary project that is also empirically driven. My congratulations to the author on a fantastic contribution to sociology."
- Lisa Sun- Hee Park, author of The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden
"A comprehensive and well-organized presentation of data and analyses that demonstrate how the legitimization of racial categories is directly connected to changes in the physical land....This book is an example of how sociology can grow and expand in both research and theory practices, opening the door to more comprehensive understandings of social relations and structures."- Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Kari Marie Norgaard's 'Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People'"
https://page99test.blogspot.com/2019/10/kari-marie-norgaards-salmon-and-acorns.html- The Page 99 Test
"What a gift! Kari Norgaard's Salmon and Acorns Feed our People illustrates in unflinching detail how the environmental degradation wrought by settler colonization must be seen as a form of violence while simultaneously revealing the Karuk's complex knowledge and life-affirming worldview. Given the environmental crisis and our refusal to acknowledge the ballast of empire, this book is required reading."
- Laura Pulido, co-author of A People's Guide to Los Angeles
"Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People is a wake-up call for social scientists. Through an intensive analysis of Karuk experiences, Professor Norgaard shows the artificiality of nature-social divide. With passion and commitment, she demonstrates the interconnectedness of all systems (environment, health, gender, race, emotions, and political power). I highly recommend this book."
- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, Past-president, American Sociological Association

"Transformative for environmental justice! So many powerful relationships have created a lasting, generous and complex book, connecting ecology, culture, food, history and self-determination. Cutting in her critique of colonial power, Norgaard shows powerfully what sociology and ally-ship can achieve when responsibility and accountability are centered."

- Kyle Powys Whyte, Professor and Timnick Chair, Michigan State University
"Kari Norgaard has produced a truly insightful and urgent analysis of how indigenous peoples resist racial formation and settler-colonialism, while practicing environmental justice and food sovereignty. This book is an extraordinary intervention and charts an urgently needed and timely path forward for the environmental social sciences and racial/ethnic studies."- David Naguib Pellow, author of What is Critical Environmental Justice? and Dehlsen Chair of Environmental Studies, UC San
"Norgaard provide us with a powerful example of sociological research that centers the needs and priorities of Indigenous communities; the rich collaborative analyses support Indigenous resistance to colonialism."- Michelle M. Jacob, author of Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing
"Kari Marie Norgaard's Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People is an important guide to achieving this goal skillfully. Norgaard conscientiously connects readers to Karuk epistemologies and illustrates them in the lessons she has drawn over nearly two decades of research and advocacy work with members of the Karuk community, whose ancestral lands stretch along the Klamath River in northern California. Her commitment to legally establishing the book's copyright with the Karuk Tribe is one I hope other non-Native researchers collaborating with Indigenous peoples will make a standard practice."- Monthly Review
"The particular points on which Kari Marie Norgaard alights have truly needed to be discussed aloud for a long time....In being able to break it down and have discussions, [readers] could learn a lot about [them]selves, where we each fit into a wildly altered landscape, and how we can go forward together as a tribe, practicing pikyav as fix-the-world people." - News for Native California
"Short Takes: Latest titles of interest from alumni and faculty authors."
https://issuu.com/uomarketingcommunications/docs/final_oq_winter_2020- Oregon Quarterly
"Pg. 99: Kari Marie Norgaard's 'Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People'"
http://americareads.blogspot.com/2019/10/pg-99-kari-marie-norgaards-salmon-and.html- Campaign for the American Reader
"What western states can learn from Native American wildfire management strategies" by Kari Mari Norgaard and Sara Worl
https://theconversation.com/what-western-states-can-learn-from-native-american-wildfire-management-strategies-120731- The Conversation

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