To Protect Mother Earth

The Dann sisters, Carrie and Mary, are two Western Shoshone Indians fighting to keep the government from seizing their ancestral land and conducting underground nuclear tests there. At stake are twenty-four million acres and the survival of an ancient people. To Protect Mother Earth. Joel Freedman's powerful sequel to the acclaimed Broken 7reaty at Battle Mountain. is a gripping account oft he continuing battle between Native Americans and the U.S. government. Maintaining that the land was legally retained in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, the Shoshone must stake their claim in the Supreme Court.