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As long as grass grows : the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock / Dina Gilio-Whitaker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xi, 212 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0807073784
  • 9780807073780
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: the Standing Rock saga -- Environmental justice theory and its limitations for Indigenous peoples -- Genocide by any other name: a history of Indigenous environmental justice -- The complicated legacy of Western expansion and the Industrial Revolution -- Food is medicine, water is life: American Indian health and the environment -- (Not so) strange bedfellows: Indian Country's ambivalent relationship with the environmental movement -- Hearts not on the ground: Indigenous women's leadership and more cultural clashes -- Sacred sites and environmental justice -- Ways forward for environmental justice in Indian Country.
Summary: "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to effective organizing and allyship"-- Provided by publisher.
List(s) this item appears in: FPL Indigenous Peoples' Day for All Ages | Indigenous Voices
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 970.0049 G474 Available 33111010628036
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community's rich history of activism

Through the unique lens of "Indigenized environmental justice," Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy.

Throughout 2016, the Standing Rock protest put a national spotlight on Indigenous activists, but it also underscored how little Americans know about the longtime historical tensions between Native peoples and the mainstream environmental movement. Ultimately, she argues, modern environmentalists must look to the history of Indigenous resistance for wisdom and inspiration in our common fight for a just and sustainable future.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-199) and index.

Introduction: the Standing Rock saga -- Environmental justice theory and its limitations for Indigenous peoples -- Genocide by any other name: a history of Indigenous environmental justice -- The complicated legacy of Western expansion and the Industrial Revolution -- Food is medicine, water is life: American Indian health and the environment -- (Not so) strange bedfellows: Indian Country's ambivalent relationship with the environmental movement -- Hearts not on the ground: Indigenous women's leadership and more cultural clashes -- Sacred sites and environmental justice -- Ways forward for environmental justice in Indian Country.

"Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to effective organizing and allyship"-- Provided by publisher.

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