On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice visual arts only forty miles from the

only forty miles from the Canadian border and freedom

Making the Carry traces the routes by which the couple came to live on Basswood Lake on the international border

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and working people—did not create this disaster

Clifford Canku

On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice visual arts only forty miles from theDespite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolinaa patchwork quilt of forested swamps, sandy plains, and blackwater streams that spreads across the Coastal Plain between the Fall Line and the Atlantic Ocean. In these backwaters, Lumbees and other American Indians have adapted to a radically transformed world while maintaining vibrant cultures and powerful