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A member of the Wabaseemoong Independent Nation<\/a>. Like many stories of the clash between industrial culture and Native American cultures, it is not a pretty picture. Where’s the forest? Going fast – clearcutting.<\/p>\n Anne McDonald, originally from Canada, currently does research and teaching on the environment at Miyagi University in Osaki City, Japan [not Osaka<\/a> as I said]. She is acquainted with the methyl mercury<\/a> poisoning of the coastal village just south of Osaka for which the disease is now named – Minamata disease. When she discovered that the effects of Minamata disease<\/a> still afflict the Ojibwa people in her native Canada [and her parents have a cabin nearby] she felt compelled to take on yet another project. She discovered that a fellow Canadienne had meticulously documented the affliction of the Ojibwa<\/a>. And that Marion Lamm gave her documents to the Harvard College Library<\/a>. Anne and her collaborator and publisher Hiroshi Isogai<\/a> are here furiously pouring over 59 boxes of documents. I wonder whether her project and environmental study at Harvard would both benefit from some collaboration. They will be working mostly at Littauer Library in the North Yard through Tuesday.<\/p>\n