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Defending mother earth : Native American perspectives on environmental justice / edited by Jace Weaver. - Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1996. - xvii, 205 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword...xi
Russell Means
Preface...XV
Jace Weaver
Introduction: Notes from a Miners Canary...1
1. The Struggle for Our Homes...29
Indian and White Values and Tribal Lands
Donald L. Fixico

2. Our Homes Are Not Dumps...47
Creating Nuclear-Free Zones
Grace Thorpe

3. Custer Rides Again-This Time on the Exxon Valdez...59
Mining Issues in Wisconsin
Justine Smith

4. A Legacy of Maldevelopment...72
Environmental Devastation in the Arctic
Norma Kasi

5. Beyond the Water Line...85
Phyllis Young

6. Family Closeness...99
Will James Bay Be Only a Memory for My Grandchildren?
Margaret Sam-Cromarty

7. Triangulated Power and the Environment...107
Tribes, the Federal Government, and the States
Jace Weaver

8. Malthusian Orthodoxy and the Myth of ZPG...122
Population Control as Racism
Andrea Smith

9. TEK Wars...144
First Nations' Struggles for Environmental Planning
Duane Good Striker
10. An American Indian Theological Response to Ecojustice...153
George E. Tinker

Afterword: Where Do We Go from Here?...177
Thom White Wolf Fassett

Resources...193
Participants: North American Native Workshop on Environmental Justice...198

Index...201

ISBN: 1570750963 9781570750960

LCCN: 96021203

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Indians of North America--Social conditions.
Indians of North America--Civil rights.
Indian philosophy--North America.
Human ecology--Philosophy.--North America
Environmental degradation--United States.
Environmental protection--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Environmental conditions.
United States--Ethnic relations.

Subjects--Index Terms: Environmental justice.

LC Class. No.: E98.S67 / D44 1996

Dewey Class. No.: 305.897 / DEF