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[http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_States/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Cultures/American__United_States_/Native_American/Organizations/Environmental/ Yahoo list] of Native Amertican eco orgs
 
[http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_States/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Cultures/American__United_States_/Native_American/Organizations/Environmental/ Yahoo list] of Native Amertican eco orgs
 
  
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winona_LaDuke Winona LaDuke] Native American activist.  [http://www.futurenet.org/article.asp?ID=348 article on native rice and GMO's.]
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winona_LaDuke Winona LaDuke] Native American activist.  [http://www.futurenet.org/article.asp?ID=348 article on native rice and GMO's.]
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[http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0140144560/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link ''In the Spirit of Crazy Horse'']
 
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0140144560/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link ''In the Spirit of Crazy Horse'']
 
by [http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=si3_rdr_bb_author?index=books&field-author-exact=Peter%20Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen] "A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indian concept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents new evidence supporting Peltier's claims of innocence, arguing for a new trial."
 
by [http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=si3_rdr_bb_author?index=books&field-author-exact=Peter%20Matthiessen Peter Matthiessen] "A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indian concept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents new evidence supporting Peltier's claims of innocence, arguing for a new trial."
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'''Essays/Literature'''
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[http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/protected/momaday1.pdf N. Scott Momaday's] ''The Man Made of Words'' (excerpts)
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[http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/protected/silko1.pdf Leslie M. Silko's] ''Gardens in the Dunes'' (excerpts)
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'''Video'''
 
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Revision as of 19:13, 23 January 2009

History

Charles Mann, author of 1491(book exploration on how Native Americans used the land) has also written about interactions between colonists and Native peoples.

Another account of megafauna extinctions

The Ohlone Way , Margolin, Malcolm, book about Spanish and Indian contact


Current

Overview

Indigenous Environmental Network

CNIE updated 2002?

Yahoo list of Native Amertican eco orgs

Winona LaDuke Native American activist. article on native rice and GMO's.

Oren Lyons Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and a proud and accomplished Native American who works tirelessly towards the issues concerning Indigenous peoples in the United States and the world. He is a member of the Seneca Nation and of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Rigoberta Menchu won the Nobel Proze for her efforts on behalf of Indigenous people in Guatemala.

Terry Freitas, UCSC grad student killed trying to stop Indigenous people from being harmed by oil company.

Navajo Nation Pushes for Uranium Cleanup. May 30, 2008 · Despite the lure of potentially big money, the Navajo Nation has banned uranium mining on its reservation, which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. In part, the decision reflects deep Navajo concerns about how past mining activities have damaged health and the environment.


Books

Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles F. Wilkinson

Rebecca Solnit’s 1994 Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West was published. Part travelogue, part historical synopsis, and part meditative landscape contemplation, the book explores a present in which the nuclear wars that were supposed to be in the future and the Indian Wars that were supposed to be in the past are both going on in the present.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen "A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indian concept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents new evidence supporting Peltier's claims of innocence, arguing for a new trial."


Essays/Literature

N. Scott Momaday's The Man Made of Words (excerpts)

Leslie M. Silko's Gardens in the Dunes (excerpts)


Video

The Buffalo War / produced by Buffalo Jump Pictures ; a film by Matthew Testa Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c2001 Media Center - VT9116

Summary: The moving story of the Native Americans, ranchers, government officials, and environmental activists currently battling over the yearly slaughter of America's last wild bison. This film explores the controversial killing by joining a 500-mile spiritual march across Montana by Lakota Sioux Indians who object to the slaughter. Woven into the film are the civil disobedience and video activism of an environmental group trying to save the buffalo, as well as the concerns of a ranching family caught in the crossfire.

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