Ebook As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock Dina GilioWhitaker 9780807073780 Books
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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.
Ebook As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock Dina GilioWhitaker 9780807073780 Books
"Disclaimer: I won a copy via a Librarything giveaway.
I suppose I could just say that I was reading this on the way back from work and when I looked up, somehow, the trolley had gotten to one stop from mine without me knowing. It was that absorbing. Gilio-Whitaker makes what might have been a somewhat dull topic and engages the reader.
But I suppose you want more than that.
When I mentioned I was reading this book to my friend who teaches in the Urban Studies department and who has worked one various community environmental projects, he admitted he wasn’t sure about the term environmental justice. He believes that justice somewhat confuses the issue and prefers the term morality.
In the opening section of the book, Gilio-Whitaker does take the time to defend what she means by environmental justice as well as statistics that show the impact on minority groups. Donald Trump JR’s inane comment aside, if you have read anything about cities and neighborhoods, you must know the truth of those statements. Gilio-Whitaker then separates Indigenous populations from other minority groups because, quite correctly, she deals with the issues of being dispossessed, broken treaties, and so on.
What is more important is that for those not of Indigenous heritage or lack of knowledge, she clearly shows not only differences in belief systems, but also how Indigenous populations are more closely tied to the environmental – an environmental that they manipulated long before the arrival of European settlers. The section of the book that traces the history of the environmental movement as well as the development of national parks tying it to the issues of racism and white supremacy.
There is a very good discussion about the devices used to terminate and move Indigenous populations – slavery, starvation far more than dieses. Particularly gutting wrenching is when the Federal government decided who and who wasn’t an Indigenous tribe, allowing them to take away even more and wrecking more destruction upon the culture.
Gilio-Whitaker set out and wrote a good about environmental justice and the Indigenous population, but she also damns the education system in American that does not go into depth about the injustices committed to Indigenous populations. Most schools just mention the land stealing. But there is so much more.
If Coates put forward an eloquent reason for reparations, Gilio-Whitaker puts forward an equally compelling one for Environmental Justice."
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As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock Dina GilioWhitaker 9780807073780 Books Reviews :
As Long as Grass Grows The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock Dina GilioWhitaker 9780807073780 Books Reviews
- Disclaimer I won a copy via a Librarything giveaway.
I suppose I could just say that I was reading this on the way back from work and when I looked up, somehow, the trolley had gotten to one stop from mine without me knowing. It was that absorbing. Gilio-Whitaker makes what might have been a somewhat dull topic and engages the reader.
But I suppose you want more than that.
When I mentioned I was reading this book to my friend who teaches in the Urban Studies department and who has worked one various community environmental projects, he admitted he wasn’t sure about the term environmental justice. He believes that justice somewhat confuses the issue and prefers the term morality.
In the opening section of the book, Gilio-Whitaker does take the time to defend what she means by environmental justice as well as statistics that show the impact on minority groups. Donald Trump JR’s inane comment aside, if you have read anything about cities and neighborhoods, you must know the truth of those statements. Gilio-Whitaker then separates Indigenous populations from other minority groups because, quite correctly, she deals with the issues of being dispossessed, broken treaties, and so on.
What is more important is that for those not of Indigenous heritage or lack of knowledge, she clearly shows not only differences in belief systems, but also how Indigenous populations are more closely tied to the environmental – an environmental that they manipulated long before the arrival of European settlers. The section of the book that traces the history of the environmental movement as well as the development of national parks tying it to the issues of racism and white supremacy.
There is a very good discussion about the devices used to terminate and move Indigenous populations – slavery, starvation far more than dieses. Particularly gutting wrenching is when the Federal government decided who and who wasn’t an Indigenous tribe, allowing them to take away even more and wrecking more destruction upon the culture.
Gilio-Whitaker set out and wrote a good about environmental justice and the Indigenous population, but she also damns the education system in American that does not go into depth about the injustices committed to Indigenous populations. Most schools just mention the land stealing. But there is so much more.
If Coates put forward an eloquent reason for reparations, Gilio-Whitaker puts forward an equally compelling one for Environmental Justice. - A comprehensive and, to many communities involved in environmental issues, instructive history of the native peoples of North America and their relationships and conflicts with federal agencies and the environmental movement. It's a well-researched survey of their struggle, beginning with the early land confiscation, population displacement and outright genocide, and continuing to the present day. We learn of the native peoples' ties to the land and their separation from traditional food sources, cultural sites and habitation by major dam and irrigation projects, by national parks, by road and energy projects. We learn that instead of the fabled "pristine wilderness," the native peoples had tended the land for food (a concept the author describes as "food sovereignty") and to manage the landscape and foliage -- for instance, that Yosemite valley was better-tended before the park displaced its native inhabitants.
It's also a valuable look at the interaction between native peoples and the environmental movement, not always beneficial to the former. We do learn that in recent years the causes coincided to fight egregious projects like a toll road at San Clemente that endangered both a popular surfing beach and a native cultural site, or like the Standing Rock pipeline battle. Even then, we find tensions and cultural misunderstandings between the native people fighting for their land and water rights and the non-native activists who moved in during the dispute. The author also notes the fact that Federal recognition of one tribe but not another could be arbitrary, and that the legal and social status of native women was far better in the original society than under U.S. citizenship.
The author has researched a number of disciplines and made them understandable, everything from land and water law to the local controversies over casino development, tribal government and corporate-native joint food projects. In all, it's a work that can serve as a resource and a source of enlightenment for the environmental movement, for university departments and activists generally. Above all, it presents environmental justice as a concept that must not only address a threatened environment but the impacts and insights of the peoples who originally tended it. Given the latest struggles over the Bears Ears National Monument and the Dakota Access Pipeline, it's timely.
