But her greatest concern was that if she spoke out against Range Resources, the company would take her water buffalo away. Without it, she and the kids would have to move, and they had nowhere to go and no way to afford the $1,200 mortgage and again as much rent for another home.

Every married woman bearing a child in our community undergoes this ritual, a day of prayers and special foods: the srimant, the rite by which the father's family seeks the blessings of the household goddess for the birth. During the ritual, our family would ask the goddess to accept the unborn child, and future children from this stranger's womb,

I mean, 1,500,000 yen is serious cash. Hard to fathom. Neither of us had that kind of money. It didn’t even sound like a real number. She said 1,500,000 like it was nothing, but I worried that the way I’d said it made it sound like it was too much for her breasts—I’d asked her “Are you really worth that much? Are your breasts worth that kind of an

In all, 113 tribal nations suffered the disaster of termination; 1.4 million acres of tribal land was lost. Wealth flowed to private corporations, while many people in terminated tribes died early, in poverty. Not one tribe profited.