Author: Shkilnyk, Anastasia M.
Title: A Poison Stronger Than Love: The Destruction of an Objibwa Community
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1985). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xx,275 pp. map,table,diagram,photos. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Grassy Narrows: Community in Ruins: A Community Destroyed; Violent Death and Suicide; Alcoholism and Illness; Public Disorder and Criminal Offenses; Failure to Thrive; Child Neglect, Abuse, and Abandonment; Family Breakdown; Exodus to Extinction; The Way of Life of a People; Journal of History; Journal of Memory; Worlds in Conflict; Space and Order in Human Settlement; Time and Consciousness; Relationships in Transition; The Bonds of Family; Rituals and Identity; Transformation in Communal Order; The Ethos of Community; Sorcery and Social Morality; The Eclipse of Self-Government; Relations with the Outside Society; From the Treaty to World War II: 1873-1945; From the End of the War to Relocation: 1945-1963; The New Reserve and Indian-White Relations: 1963-Present; New Patterns of Livelihood; Changes in Traditional Economy, The Economics of Dependency; Social Inequality and Ethics; The New Economics and diet; Transformation in the Role of Women; Net Benefits of Modernization; Government Policy and Decision Making; The Policy Context; The Decision to Relocate; Planning the New Community; River of Poison; Mercury in the Environment, An Insidious Poison; An Environmental Disaster; 'The Last Nail in the Coffin'; On Being 'At Risk'; Damages to Livelihood; The Politics of Mercury; The Promises of Restitution.

Keywords: Ojibwa Ethnography, Native Americans, American Indians, New World Ethnology, Ontario Canada, North America, Environmental, Sociology, Anthropology