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Sierra Club: Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy's Encounters with the Native World
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Author: Robert Hunter
ISBN: 9781578050482
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Published: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Memoir 1621275
Publisher Description:
Robert Hunter'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.
The adventures chronicled in this book include a spectacular (and at times hilarious) Caribbean journey aboard the Sea Shepherd II with a group of British Colombian Indian chiefs. Their mission is to intercept the symbolic Columbus 500-year commemorative fleet of 1992, and, with cameras rolling, to extract an official apology from Spain for the resulting centuries of unfair treatment of indigenous peoples. Hunter also describes an other-worldly ceremony in which he is adopted as an honorary Brother of the Kwakiutl; a mind-bending, transforming experience in a Cree sweat lodge; and a tense sacred powwow meeting in the Alberta foothills with radicals of the native movement.
From the profound to the profane, from the horrific to the ridiculous, Hunter relates his experiences with humor, vividness, and an appealing honesty that spares no one, least of all himself.
