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• Title:As long as grass grows : the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock / Dina Gilio-Whitaker.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gilio-Whitaker, Dina, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2019]
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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NB G55 A8 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Environmental justice--United States.
  
• Description:xi, 212 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism. Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy. Throughout 2016, the Standing Rock protest put a national spotlight on Indigenous activists, but it also underscored how little Americans know about the longtime historical tensions between Native peoples and the mainstream environmental movement. Ultimately, she argues, modern environmentalists must look to the history of Indigenous resistance for wisdom and inspiration in our common fight for a just and sustainable future."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-199) and index.
  
• ISBN:0807073784 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
  9780807073780 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
  9780807073797 (ebook)
  
• 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.