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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.
As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
by GILIO-WHITAKER, DINAFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2019-04-02
Publisher(s): Beacon Press
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Summary
Author Biography
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is the policy director and a senior research associate at the Center for World Indigenous Studies and teaches American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos. She is the coauthor, with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, of “All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans. She lives in San Clemente, California.
Table of Contents
Author’s Note
INTRODUCTION
The Standing Rock Saga
CHAPTER ONE
Environmental Justice Theory and Its Limitations for Indigenous Peoples
CHAPTER TWO
Genocide by Any Other Name
A History of Indigenous Environmental Injustice
CHAPTER THREE
The Complicated Legacy of Western Expansion and the Industrial Revolution
CHAPTER FOUR
Food Is Medicine, Water Is Life
American Indian Health and the Environment
CHAPTER FIVE
(Not So) Strange Bedfellows
Indian Country’s Ambivalent Relationship with the Environmental Movement
CHAPTER SIX
Hearts Not on the Ground
Indigenous Women’s Leadership and More Cultural Clashes
CHAPTER SEVEN
Sacred Sites and Environmental Justice
CHAPTER EIGHT
Ways Forward for Environmental Justice in Indian Country
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
INTRODUCTION
The Standing Rock Saga
CHAPTER ONE
Environmental Justice Theory and Its Limitations for Indigenous Peoples
CHAPTER TWO
Genocide by Any Other Name
A History of Indigenous Environmental Injustice
CHAPTER THREE
The Complicated Legacy of Western Expansion and the Industrial Revolution
CHAPTER FOUR
Food Is Medicine, Water Is Life
American Indian Health and the Environment
CHAPTER FIVE
(Not So) Strange Bedfellows
Indian Country’s Ambivalent Relationship with the Environmental Movement
CHAPTER SIX
Hearts Not on the Ground
Indigenous Women’s Leadership and More Cultural Clashes
CHAPTER SEVEN
Sacred Sites and Environmental Justice
CHAPTER EIGHT
Ways Forward for Environmental Justice in Indian Country
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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