Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California

Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern CaliforniaYoung 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

including oral histories of the Anishinaabe people and personal reminiscences

land ownership

reparations

contemporary concerns about identity

wrote his history in the hope of saving traditional stories for posterity even as he presented to the American public a sympathetic view of a people he believed were fast disappearing under the onslaught of a corrupt frontier population

–Dakota War

and Duyvkta

Includes a CD featuring a new

Dadibaajim is a message about how all humans may live well on the earth

He and his Lakota family are being forced to leave behind their tribal values and traditions and assimilate into the mainstream of American culture and society

providing a wealth of new material for those interested in natural food

the Lakota