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As Long as Grass Grows

The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Kyla Garcia
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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.

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    April 2, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9780807081488
      • File size: 205573 KB
      • Duration: 07:08:16

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kyla Garcia pulls no emotional punches in her narration as she speaks straightforwardly on the environmental violations experienced by indigenous people in the U.S. With a steady and matter-of-fact delivery, she lets the author do the heavy lifting of inciting the listener's sense of injustice. The author dissects how Western governments have in the past and continue in the present to disregard indigenous people's connection to nature. Examples include the forced removal by governments that repeatedly polluted their lands or placed them away from the flora and fauna needed for cultural traditions. Even the environmental movement is part of the story in that governments worked to preserve lands and spaces traditionally used by indigenous tribes. This clash between environmentalism and indigenous people is still playing out today. L.E. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2019

      Gilio-Whitaker (American Indian studies, California State Univ. San Marcos; coauthor, All the Real Indians Died Off) aims for this work to serve as a primer for Native American rights activists dealing with environmental protection, pursuing the complex intersections of environmentalism and Native rights. The 2015-17 protests on Standing Rock tribal lands against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) provide a dramatic touchstone for discussion of key aspects of environmental justice theory as applied against a historical backdrop of American Indian nations. Long-standing conflicts between environmental groups wanting pristine wilderness without humans, and Native claims to historic land and water uses are examined. Among the first books to analyze the DAPL Standing Rock protests, contrasting Madelon L. Finkel's Pipeline Politics: Assessing the Benefits and Harms of Energy Policy, Gilio-Whitaker's review should go a long way toward finding common ground in the modern political arena. VERDICT Highly recommended for American Indian studies and environmental justice students and scholars.--Nathan Bender, Albany Cty. P.L., Laramie, WY

      Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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