“Fitzgerald offers a concentrated scrutiny that should attract a broad readership. No one should doubt her powerful intellectual weight and resourcefulness. . . . Essential.”—Choice
“This book could not be more timely. From Cherokee oral traditions, to the acclaimed novels of Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich, to the Idle No More movement’s savvy use of Twitter and YouTube, Fitzgerald tells a riveting story of how Native communities have responded to land dispossession and environmental destruction with messages of sustainability and hope.”—Siobhan Senier, author of Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard
“An excellent choice for anyone interested in Native land tenure as well as for scholars in American Indian studies, women’s studies, ecocriticism, and environmental justice studies. Highly recommended.”—Great Plains Quarterly
“Fitzgerald’s book will invite its readers to practice literary criticism in new ways.”—Studies in American Indian Literatures
“Indigenous cosmologies, centuries-old displacements, and contemporary ecological disasters are woven together in Stephanie Fitzgerald’s compelling account of Native narrations of place and ongoing contests over law and land in the United States and Canada. Fitzgerald’s capacious understanding of texts, her focus on women’s writing, and her careful attention to law and policy make this book essential reading in Native American and ecocritical literary studies.”—Beth H. Piatote, author of Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature
“This quietly profound book brings home the point that Native land dispossession was not just a nineteenth-century atrocity. It is also one of the consequences of the twenty-first century’s environmental disasters. But through the powerful act of storytelling, Stephanie Fitzgerald shows, Native people can remember and even recover their relationship to their homeplaces, even under the most adverse conditions.”—Joanna Brooks, author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures
