Water, History, and Sovereignty in Simon J. Ortiz’s “Our Homeland, a National Sacrifice Area”
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robin Riley Fast
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 36-53
Description
Discusses Ortiz’s essay in the context of contemporary concerns surrounding water and environmental damage as forms of oppression of marginalized peoples. Calls for Indigenous led resistance to government and corporate control, and for dismantling systemic factors of oppression which sacrifice peoples and lands in favour of neocolonial and corporate interests.