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Defending mother earth : Native American perspectives on environmental justice / edited by Jace Weaver.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1996.Description: xvii, 205 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1570750963
  • 9781570750960
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.897 23 DEF
LOC classification:
  • E98.S67 D44 1996
Contents:
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
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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

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