Ojibwa Voices Through the Forest*: Ecoactivists visit Harvard.
A member of the Wabaseemoong Independent Nation. Like many stories of the clash between industrial culture and Native American cultures, it is not a pretty picture. Where’s the forest? Going fast – clearcutting.
Anne McDonald, originally from Canada, currently does research and teaching on the environment at Miyagi University in Osaki City, Japan [not Osaka as I said]. She is acquainted with the methyl mercury poisoning of the coastal village just south of Osaka for which the disease is now named – Minamata disease. When she discovered that the effects of Minamata disease still afflict the Ojibwa people in her native Canada [and her parents have a cabin nearby] she felt compelled to take on yet another project. She discovered that a fellow Canadienne had meticulously documented the affliction of the Ojibwa. And that Marion Lamm gave her documents to the Harvard College Library. Anne and her collaborator and publisher Hiroshi Isogai are here furiously pouring over 59 boxes of documents. I wonder whether her project and environmental study at Harvard would both benefit from some collaboration. They will be working mostly at Littauer Library in the North Yard through Tuesday.
*From the title of their book, “Ojibwa Voices Through the Forest: visual field notes of Canada’s Minamata experience.” Shimizukobundo
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