As I see it all around me, the trees are dying out, our water is contaminated, and our air is not good to breathe. Those are the reasons why today I'm trying my best to come back to our ways of thousands of years ago.

We have to come back to the Native way of life. The Native way is to pray for everything, to take care of everything. Our Mother Earth is very important. We can't just misuse her and think she's going to continue. We can see what's taking place: the animal life, the tree life, even the water is telling us, but we're not paying attention to it.

We've been told to take care of...

Comprehensive and accessible, this title offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history.

• Provides students with more than 60 essential documents on Colonial America
  
• Short headnotes introduce each selection
  
• Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research
  
• Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text

An elegy--angry, funny, and powerfully detailed--about the slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life.
How does a country dismantle a century's worth of its industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of America's most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. Prior to its closing, the Budd Company stamping plant on Detroit's East Side, built in 1919, was one of the oldest active auto plants in America's foremost industrial city--one whose history includes the nation's proudest moments and those of its working...