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As long as grass grows : the indigenous fight for environmental justice from colonization to Standing Rock /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilio-Whitaker, Dina (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Environmental justice > United States.
Indian activists > United States.
Justice environnementale > États-Unis.
Activistes indiens d'Amérique > États-Unis.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY > North America.
Environmental justice.
Indian activists.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The standing rock saga
  • Environmental justice theory and its limitations for indigenous peoples
  • Genocide by any other name, a history of indigenous environmental injustice
  • 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.