Word: lande
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...fact is that Sacajawea's good works only made it easier for the non-native Americans to exploit her people and the land itself. She may have served as a sign of peace, but Americans were anything but peaceful in forcing hundreds of tribes from their homelands. It is therefore somewhat ridiculous to honor Sacajawea for what Rheta Johnson called "an enormous and personal contribution to this country." Her contribution, willing or not, was to a grand injustice. And if we as a nation didn't care about the plight of the American Indians then, we don't care much...
Saundra Graham, a local activist, stormed the podium, disrupting a speech, and spoke for two hours. She led a group of students, neighbors and anti-war activists, demanding that Harvard stop buying and developing land along the Charles River...
...Prince of Egypt is a grand experiment, a crusade to expand the frustratingly narrow boundaries of feature animation. The film and its laborious making are, finally, a bit like the Moses story: each is an illuminating adventure that stops just short of its own Promised Land...
From a plane flown by Lighthawk, the activist flying outfit, Phillips scans the scarred forest between Seattle and the Cascades. On land where 500-year-old trees recently grew, she sees bald slopes and cookie-cutter second homes. She is small, white-haired, 56 years old. And full of fire. Her plans? She's starting a nationwide group, Women for Protection of Public Lands. "There aren't enough women environmentalists," she says. "Women can fight without making it personal. Work with the opposition when we can..."--she pauses, smiling--"and sue them when we have...
...realized that his work could play a role in saving the rain forest. The key was to help persuade indigenous peoples and their governments that they stood to gain more in the long run if they preserved their trees and cultures than if they let timber companies strip the land. The knowledge of the shamans--and the secrets that new generations of shamans might uncover--could be worth a fortune, especially since herbal medicine is booming in developed countries. Interest in medicinal plants is "real sweet right now," Plotkin says. "Indians are potentially the best conservationists out there, but only...