Defending mother earth : Native American perspectives on environmental justice / edited by Jace Weaver
- Bib ID:
- 1315571
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1996
- xvii, 205 pages ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1570750963 (alkaline paper)
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Russell Means
- Preface / Jace Weaver
- Introduction: Notes from a Miner's Canary
- 1. The Struggle for Our Homes: Indian and White Values and Tribal Lands / Donald L. Fixico
- 2. Our Homes Are Not Dumps: Creating Nuclear-Free Zones / Grace Thorpe
- 3. Custer Rides Again - This Time on the Exxon Valdez: Mining Issues in Wisconsin / Justine Smith
- 4. A Legacy of Maldevelopment: Environmental Devastation in the Arctic / Norma Kassi
- 5. Beyond the Water Line / Phyllis Young
- 6. Family Closeness: Will James Bay Be Only a Memory for My Grandchildren? / Margaret Sam-Cromarty
- 7. Triangulated Power and the Environment: Tribes, the Federal Government, and the States / Jace Weaver
- 8. Malthusian Orthodoxy and the Myth of ZPG: Population Control as Racism / Andrea Smith
- 9. TEK Wars: First Nations' Struggles for Environmental Planning / Duane Good Striker
- 10. An American Indian Theological Response to Ecojustice / George E. Tinker.
- Afterword: Where Do We Go from Here? / Thom White Wolf Fassett
- Participants: North American Native Workshop on Environmental Justice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Indians of North America -- Social conditions
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights
- Indian philosophy -- North America
- Human ecology -- North America -- Philosophy
- Environmental degradation -- United States
- Environmental protection -- United States
- United States -- Environmental conditions
- United States -- Ethnic relations
- Environmental justice
- Other authors/contributors:
- Weaver, Jace, 1957-
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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