Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming

The indigenous imperative to honor nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling. Formal protections exist for Native American religious expression, but not for the places and natural resources integral to ceremonies. Under what conditions can traditional beliefs be best practiced?

Recovering the Sacred features a wealth of native research and hundreds of interviews with indigenous scholars and activists.

Winona LaDuke was named by Time in 1994 as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty. In 1996 and 2000, LaDuke served as Ralph Nader's vice presidential running mate in the Green Party.

• Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed.
• Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Classics)
• Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
• Red Alert! (Speaker's Corner)
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
• All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
• The Winona LaDuke Chronicles: Stories from the Front Lines in the Battle for Environmental Justice
• Life's Journey_Zuya: Oral Teachings from Rosebud
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
• The Way to Rainy Mountain