Tar Creek: The Quapaw Tribe, the EPA, and Tribal Self-Determination, 1980–2010
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raymond Anthony Nolan
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 70-86
Description
Author examines the way that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) managed the clean-up of mining pollution on Quapaw land at the Tar Creek mine site; outlines frameworks of historic case law and contemporary sovereignty agreements, critically analyses the EPA’s process and its failure to recognize Quapaw sovereignty and self-determination within these contexts.