Title Settler cannabis : from gold rush to green rush in indigenous Northern California / Kaitlin Reed

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Indigenous confluences Indigenous confluences. Contents Introduction: Settler colonialism and ecological violence -- 1. Gold, greed, and genocide: Settler colonialism and resource extraction in the California Gold Rush -- 2. Forests on fire: Constructing natural resources and imposing ecological regimes -- 3. Salmon is everything: Controlling rivers and commodifying kin -- 4. Back to whose land? Hippies, environmentalism, and cannabis -- 5. Weed greed: Explosion of the California green rush -- 6. No justice on stolen land: Cannabis cultivation and land dispossession -- 7. Cannabis and water: Use, rights, and infrastructure -- 8. Toxic environments: Cannabis, chemicals, and legacy impacts -- Conclusion: Ecological crisis and #LandBack Summary "Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5 billion. In Settler Cannabis, Kaitlin Reed demonstrates how this "green rush" is only the most recent example of settler colonial resource extraction and wealth accumulation. Situating the cannabis industry within this broader legacy, the author traces patterns of resource rushing -- first gold, then timber, then fish, and now cannabis --to reveal the ongoing impacts on Indigenous cultures, lands, waters, and bodies"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) is assistant professor of Native American studies at Humboldt State University Print version record Subject Indigenous peoples -- California, Northern Colonization -- Environmental aspects -- California, Northern Indians of North America -- Colonization -- California, Northern Cannabis -- Irrigation -- Environmental aspects -- California, Northern Indians of North America -- Crimes against -- California, Northern SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies Indians of North America -- Colonization Indians of North America -- Crimes against Northern California Form Electronic book ISBN 9780295751573 0295751576

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