The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

by Elizabeth Hoover

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017

Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in upstate New York that is downwind and downstream from three Superfund sites. For years she witnessed elevated rates of miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer in her town, ultimately drawing connections between environmental contamination and these maladies. When she brought her findings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517903033
• ISBN13: 9781517903039
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"