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[http://www.udall.gov/ourprograms/mkuscholarship/mkuscholarship.aspx Udall Scholarships and internships] To students who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to the environment including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning and renewal, business, health, justice, economics, and other related fields; or to Native American and Alaska Native students who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to tribal public policy, including fields related to tribal sovereignty, tribal governance, tribal law, Native American education, Native American justice, natural resource management, cultural preservation and revitalization, Native American economic development, and other areas affecting Native American communities; or who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to Native health care. | [http://www.udall.gov/ourprograms/mkuscholarship/mkuscholarship.aspx Udall Scholarships and internships] To students who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to the environment including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning and renewal, business, health, justice, economics, and other related fields; or to Native American and Alaska Native students who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to tribal public policy, including fields related to tribal sovereignty, tribal governance, tribal law, Native American education, Native American justice, natural resource management, cultural preservation and revitalization, Native American economic development, and other areas affecting Native American communities; or who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to Native health care. | ||
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| + | Friends Foundation Internations supports the U’wa Defense Project/Amazon Watch and Mujer U’wa supporting the U’wa fight to preserve their indigenous territory in Colombia from oil exploitation. FFI funding over the years has gone toward a collaborative legal action to protect U’wa land from Occidental Petroleum’s massive oil drilling project in northeastern Colombia. In August, 2001, the oil company withdrew its plan to drill in the first exploratory well site on U’wa ancestral territory. Despite this victory, the State petroleum company is now exploring for oil on U’wa territory. FFI has supported leadership trainingsfor U’wa women and women’s workshops on human rights/environmental rights. FFI has provided financial assistance to the first U’wa women ever to study law at a Colombian University and for post degree international and human rights law training program. | ||
Revision as of 16:16, 10 February 2014
Information on indigenous peoples, who are on the front lines of green issues because they are often first and most affected by damage to ecosystems, and have long and deep connections to them.
See also Category: Native Americans and Environmental Justice as well as Activism
Contents
Overviews and Research Resources
Indigenous Environmental Network ***
Yes magazine coverage example includes Idle No More, a native occupy/spring.
Profiles and information about California's indigenous Native American Tribes.
Indian Country has environmental and human rights news.
Lists Native American tribes in California and provides descriptions of their location and diet.
Native American news quarterly also AlterNative
International Indian Treaty Council works on food sovereignty, climate etc.
A brief history of Native Americans in California
Ethnic NewsWatch: Full-text newspaper and journal articles focusing on news, culture and history from the ethnic, minority and native press. (university login).
News
Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty and Environmental Justice, also in Oakland 1/13 Bill McKibben's take. Update and background 1/13. 5/13 ,LOE.org Audio. 2/13 update. Anthem (rap video).
Native tribe challenges Keystone XL pipeline 12/11. Lakota Sioux update 4/13. Lakotas block the XL Pipeline 3/12 Canadians too. Lakota Hunger Strike4/12. Eriel Deranger, Athabascan Chipewyan First Nation, interview on tarsands/XL.
Natives Fight Coal 2/14.
| Native People and British Columbia stop big tar-sands pipeline | |
| 6/3 | The Canadian province of British Columbia has come out in formal opposition to a plan for a massive pipeline system that would carry bitumen from Alberta's tar-sands fields to a coastal port, pointing out the significant dangers of oil spills. But we're not talking about the Keystone XL pipeline here. We're talking about Enbridge's Northern Gateway project, a pair of pipelines proposed to carry tar-sands oil west across B.C. to a port in the town of Kitimat -- effectively a backup system in case America rejects Keystone XL. A new shipping terminal in Kitimat would feed oil onto ships headed for Asia.More |
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Canada Fracking Protests Turn Violent; 40 Arrested After Police Cars Set On Fire 10/13.
Peru Declares Oil Contamination Emergency In Remote Amazon Region 3/13.
Land Grab Cheats North Dakota Tribes Out of $1 Billion, Suits Allege 2/13.
Third National Assessment of global warming (summary) has chapters on what will happen with water, forests, native ppl etc.
Ecuador’s Kichwa people have asked for our help to stop the government turning their forest home into an oil field. A massive scandal in the global media challenging President Correa to act on his environmental principles could persuade him to pull back and stop the Amazon oil rush. Sign the petition now 1/13. Children of the Jaguar is a campaign documentary.
Rebecca Solnit reflects on 2012: Who foresaw that the silly misinterpretations of Mayan prophesy would be overtaken by the Mayan Zapatistas, who rose once again last Friday? (Meanwhile, Canada's Native people started a dynamic movement around indigenous rights and the environment that has led to everything from flash-mob dances in an Edmonton Mall to demonstrations in Ottawa.)
Tribes take on coal 10/12. why it matters (video).
Action on climate change: Congressional testimony, PBS NewsHour video part 1 part 2 on Northwest coast salmon. 7.12
Louisiana tribe loses land to sea level rise 6/12.
Caroline Cannon has won the prestigious Goldman Award for bringing the voice and perspective of her Inupiat community in Point Hope to the battle to keep Arctic waters safe from offshore oil and gas drilling, and successfully halted numerous oil and gas leases in the region.(audio) transcript.
Arboretum celebrates partnership with Amah Mutsun tribe on native plants.
Eagle controversy 3/12.
Uranium mining and Native people.
More than ten percent of the potential for clean energy in the US sits on land owned by Indian tribes.
Video
America's native prisoners of war: Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courageous TEDtalk.
Quileute 'Twilight' Tribe Deals With Rising Sea Levels That Threaten Way of Life Nov. 26, 2012 PBS Newshour.
Sacred Poison shows the devastating toll past uranium mining has had on the Navajo people and discusses the potential risks posed by a renewal of uranium mining. It lays out the complex and conflicting economic, political, environmental and spiritual issues involved. However, this documentary in no way portrays the Navajo as victims of outside forces, but rather agents of change within their community and beyond. Yvonne Latty 2011. excerpt) Related article
The Moapa Band of Paiutes continues to fight the pollution from the nearby Reid Gardner coal plant in Southern Nevada, and the Sierra Club stands with them. Today, we are releasing this powerful new video that features members of the tribe telling moving personal stories about the devastating effects of pollution from Reid Gardner. 6/12
We Shall Remain, a provocative PBS multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history.
Children of the Jaguar is a campaign documentary about the struggle of the Sarayaku indigenous community of Ecuador in order to defend their human rights and the right of many other communities across the Americas. A few years ago, the government authorised an oil company to enter Sarayaku's land and drill for oil. Neither the government nor the company consulted with Sarayaku whether the project was in line with their traditions and way of life. Since then, Sarayaku has been campaigning for justice and redress, including the removal of 1.4 tons of explosives which are still buried on their ancestral land. They are also defending their right to be consulted regarding further development projects which may affect them in the future. Having exhausted all judicial avenues at home, the Sarayaku have taken their case to the Costa Rica-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Children of the Jaguar follows the Sarayaku delegation as they make their way to the highest regional court in the Americas.
Audio
Bay Native Circle KPFA 2 pm Weds. Hosts Janeen Antoine, Lakota Harden, Mark Anquoe, Ras K'Dee and Morning Star Gali bring you today's Native issues, people, culture & events.Bay Area Native Community Calendar.
Music: Idle No More Anthem "Red Winter" (rap video) Lyrics. Bullet Proof
An indigenous tribe in the Amazon is trying to protect its forest by selling carbon credits on the voluntary carbon market. 9/12.
Tribe Called Red music.
Non-fiction Books
The Sacred Headwaters by Wade Davis.
Literature
Sherman Alexie is a younger writer whose stories about the Rez are darkly funny. Smoke Signals (1998) is a film of his screenplay based on "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven".
Paula Gunn Allen is a great poet, Feminist and scholar.
Louise Erdrich's novels include Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988).
Joy Harjo Muscogee (Creek) Nation, is a great poet (and plays sax too Eagle Song). A new autobiography Crazy Brave is about the dreams, visions and heartache that led her to find her voice as a poet and musician.(audio interview).
N. Scott Momaday, a Native American author of Kiowa decent. His work House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969, is considered the founding author in what critic Kenneth Lincoln has coined the Native American Renaissance.
Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead are cultural critiques that have environmental aspects.
History
Readings
Cronon, William Changes in the Land documents how Native Americans related to nature, and what happened when the market was introduced. Ch. 8 is the summary/conclusion.
Charles Mann, author of 1491(book exploration on how Native Americans used the land) has also written about interactions between colonists and Native peoples. Atlantic Monthly excerpt; (audio interview) (1491) discusses the voyage of Christopher Columbus and the birth of globalization in terms of world trade and ecological collision. "1492 Before and After":2012 video talk 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Knopf, 2011 Charles Mann, "Living in the Homogenocene: The First 500 Years" (video) LongNow 2012 talk.
Another account of megafauna extinctions.
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown video excerpt.
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen is more recent history.
Vine Deloria, Jr. wrote Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto.
NAFTA effect on worker safety in Mexico. Overall effect (video) 12/13 20th anniversary report (which could have lessons for current TPP). NAFTA sparked indigenous Zapatista uprising in Mexico.
A brief history of Native Americans in California. Another by Park Service. Cabrillio College
Ohlone tribe.History of Ohlone tribe, see esp here.
Dr Tad Beckman's, The View from Native California (extensive; thanks Wayback machine!)
Projects and Funding
Udall Scholarships and internships To students who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to the environment including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning and renewal, business, health, justice, economics, and other related fields; or to Native American and Alaska Native students who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to tribal public policy, including fields related to tribal sovereignty, tribal governance, tribal law, Native American education, Native American justice, natural resource management, cultural preservation and revitalization, Native American economic development, and other areas affecting Native American communities; or who have demonstrated commitment to careers related to Native health care.
Friends Foundation Internations supports the U’wa Defense Project/Amazon Watch and Mujer U’wa supporting the U’wa fight to preserve their indigenous territory in Colombia from oil exploitation. FFI funding over the years has gone toward a collaborative legal action to protect U’wa land from Occidental Petroleum’s massive oil drilling project in northeastern Colombia. In August, 2001, the oil company withdrew its plan to drill in the first exploratory well site on U’wa ancestral territory. Despite this victory, the State petroleum company is now exploring for oil on U’wa territory. FFI has supported leadership trainingsfor U’wa women and women’s workshops on human rights/environmental rights. FFI has provided financial assistance to the first U’wa women ever to study law at a Colombian University and for post degree international and human rights law training program.
