TY - BOOK AU - Posluns,Michael TI - Voices from the Odeyak SN - 9781554883721 AV - S934.C3 P67 1993eb U1 - 333.7/2/09714111 22 PY - 1993/// CY - Toronto PB - NC Press KW - James Bay Hydroelectric Project KW - Citizen participation KW - Odeyak (Canoe) KW - Projet hydro-électrique de la baie James KW - Participation des citoyens KW - Odeyak (Canot) KW - fast KW - Hydroelectric power plants KW - Environmental aspects KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Political participation KW - Québec (Province) KW - United States KW - Native peoples KW - Great Whale River (Québec) KW - Centrales hydroélectriques KW - Aspect de l'environnement KW - Baleine, Vallée de la Grande rivière de la KW - Conservation des ressources naturelles KW - Autochtones KW - Participation politique KW - États-Unis KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Development KW - Sustainable Development KW - bisacsh KW - NATURE KW - Environmental Conservation & Protection KW - Québec KW - Great Whale River KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 224) and index; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgement; The Cast of Characters; Maps; 1. Manhattan Transfer; 2. Building the Odeyak; Photo Section: The Odeyak Travellers and Their Hosts; 3. The Whale and the Seal -- Traditional Way of Life; 4. The Bulldozer -- James Bay 1; 5. A Canadian Wilderness; 6. Odeyak Discovers Lake Champlain; 7. The Clearwater's Blanket; 8. River Talk, Legal Talk; 9. The Power and the Glory; Bibliography; Index N2 - On April 23, 1990, after a five-week journey from Hudson Bay to the Hudson River, the Odeyak landed at the Battery for Earth Day. Half-Cree, half-Inuit, the 24-foot freighter canoe, plowing across the Manhattan seascape, was a strange small vessel build in the dark Arctic winter to carry a message from two First Nations of the northern wilderness to a reclaiming of Times Square for Mother Earth. Along with the Crees' and the Inuit's hopes and fears for their children and for the future of their river, the Odeyak carried a simple request. The Great Whale Hydroelectric Project, the first part o UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=244946 ER -