Red Blood: One (Mostly) White Guy's Encounters with the Native World

by Robert Hunter

Robert Hunter, winner of a Governor General’s Award for co-authoring Occupied Canada, has crossed trails with Natives of all sorts in many circumstances. His adventures as the founder of the Greenpeace movement in Vancouver brought him in frequent contact with sympathetic Natives fighting the same good fight. He worked with the Nimpkish Band Council as a media adviser, and was involved in a number of Native protest actions, including a spectacular journey to the Caribbean with an unlikely (and seasick) band of B.C. Natives who managed to intercept the recreated Columbus fleet and extract an official apology from the Spanish government. In this book, Hunter provides a look at Native life, and especially Native activists, that is far from solemn and is consistently informative and irreverently entertaining.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Social Science

280 pages, Hardcover

First published April 3, 1999

About the author

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Robert "Bob" Lorne Hunter was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. He was a member of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1969, and a co-founder of Greenpeace in 1971 and its first president. He led the first on-sea anti-whaling campaigns in the world, against Russian and Australian whalers, which helped lead to the ban on commercial whaling. He campaigned against nuclear testing, the Canadian seal hunt and later, climate change with his book Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030. He was named by Time as one of the "Eco-Heroes" of the 20th century and is credited with coining the terms "mindbomb" and "eco-warrior".