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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: The Sacred and the Superfund

"Ecological restoration is inseparable from cultural and spiritual restoration, and is inseparable from the spiritual responsibilities of care-giving and world-renewal." p. 337

Onondaga Lake

Andy Arthur Flickr Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

9 Mile Creek Aqueduct Marker

Photographed By Howard C. Ohlhous, October 20, 2017 hmdb.org

Solvay Process Co.'s works, Syracuse (between 1890 and 1901)

Detroit Publishing Co., Publisher. Solvay Process Co.'s works, Syracuse i.e. Solvay, N.Y. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016804033/.

Solvay Process Company in Solvay, New York, on Onondaga Lake c. 1900

Image courtesy of Wikimedia

Sculpture along Onondaga Creek

Sculpture 2011, Peter W. Michel. photo Onondaganation.org

Mudboil in the Tully Valley, Onondaga County, New York

https://www.onondaganation.org/land-rights/onondaga-creek-mud-boils/

Vigil for Onondaga Land Rights- 2012

    Flickr Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Keywords

Aboriginal: being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region (MW)

Accretion: the process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup (MW)

Acquiesce: to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively (MW)

Arboretum: a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes (MW)

Brine: water saturated or strongly impregnated with common salt (MW)

Contravention (Controvene): to oppose in argument (MW)

Corrosive (Corrode): to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing (MW)

Degradation (Degrade): to impair in respect to some physical property (MW)

Directive: serving or intended to guide, govern, or influence (MW)

Deluged: Overwhelm, swamp (MW)

Demise: a cessation of existence or activity (MW)

Feasible: capable of being done or carried out (MW)

Incremental (Increment): the amount or degree by which something changes (MW)

Intrepid:  characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance (MW)

Inverse: opposite in order, nature, or effect (MW)

Leachate: a solution or product obtained by leaching (MW)

Lineage: a group of individuals tracing descent from a common ancestor (MW)

Manifold: marked by diversity or variety (MW)

Matrilineal: relating to, based on, or tracing descent through the maternal line (MW)

Matrix: material in which something is enclosed or embedded (MW)

Nascent: Coming or having recently come into existence (MW)

Opaque: blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light  (MW)

Paradigm: a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind (MW)

Profaned:to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt (MW)

Proliferation: to increase in number (MW)

Reparations: the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury (MW)

Salinity: consisting of or containing salt (MW)

Sovereign: enjoying autonomy (MW)

Stanchion: an upright bar, post, or support (MW)

Subsistence: a source or means of obtaining the necessities of life (MW)

Tableau: a graphic description or representation (MW)

Tableaux: Plural of tableau (MW)

Topographic (Topography): the physical or natural features of an object or entity and their structural relationships (MW)

Transpire:  to give off vaporous material (MW)

Turbidity: thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment (MW)

Vitriol: bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism (MW)

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