Category:Native Americans

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.