Research Guides: Indigenous Ecostudies: Environmental justice

online resources

Environmental Justice

Websites and articles

Activist, Environmental, and Social Justice Organizations List of groups allied with Sacred Land Film Project
Center for Native Peoples and the Environment Creating programs drawing on indigenous wisdom and scientific knowledge to support environmental sustainability
Conversations with the Earth Collaboration based on principles of local control and supporting indigenous media capacity
Environmental Justice for Tribes and Indigenous Peoples [U.S. EPA] The Environmental Protection Agency works with indigenous groups and members in Indian country
Indian Law Resources Related to Environment & Climate Change Excellent collection of sources from the National Indian Law Library
Indigenous Environmental Network IEN is an alliance of Indigenous peoples whose mission it is to protect the sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination and exploitation by strengthening, maintaining and respecting Indigenous teachings and natural laws
Land Sovereignty and Environmental Issues Article feed from Nonprofit Quarterly
Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research? Article reviewing and summarizing Native American environmental justice scholarship. Jamie Vickery & Lori M. Hunter (2016) Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research?, Society & Natural Resources, 29:1, 36-52, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2015.1045644
Red Thunder Oral History Project Documents a model of grassroots activism in response to environmental injustice in a contemporary indigenous tribal community
Sacred Land Film Project Indigenous worldviews, values and sacred places strengthen earth’s biological and cultural diversity
Sacred Water: Environmental justice in Indian Country Environmental Health News' ongoing investigation into Native American struggles and solutions to protect culturally significant water sources
Stewarding Native Lands A First Nation's program
What Environmental Justice Means in Indian Country Article about Environmental Justice frameworks from a Southern California public media organization

library books and search suggestions

Selected Library Books

As Long As Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
ISBN: 9780807073780
Publication Date: 2019-04-02

EPA policy on environmental justice for working with federally recognized tribes and indigenous peoples.

Indigenous Environmental Justice by Karen Jarratt-Snider (Editor); Marianne O. Nielsen (Editor)
ISBN: 9780816540839
Publication Date: 2020-05-05
Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America by David M. Gordon (Editor); Shepard Krech (Editor)
ISBN: 9780821444115
Publication Date: 2012-04-01
Notes from a Miners Canary by Jace Weaver
ISBN: 9780826348753
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Our History Is the Future by Nick Estes
ISBN: 9781786636720
Publication Date: 2019-03-05
Tribes, Land, and the Environment by Sarah Krakoff; Ezra Rosser (Editor)
ISBN: 9781317006305
Publication Date: 2016-02-17

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Scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering human impact on the environment, including the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

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