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

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilio-Whitaker, Dina (Author)
Language:English
Published: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Social conditions.
Environmental justice > United States.
Indigenous activists > United States.
Indians, North American.
Environmental justice.
Indian activists.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
United States.
Physical Description:xi, 212 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.