Uses literature on environmental racism to frame case study of the Canadian government's inaction on the issue and provides overview of Indigenous-government relations to illustrate factors which have allowed this human rights violation. Argues that the current situation is a result of lack of government accountability and the country's colonial history.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 331-340
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Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.
IK: Other Ways of Knowing, vol. 5, June 2019, pp. 1-40
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Author asserts that Indigenous African knowledge about gorillas has been excluded from contemporary conservation efforts and that this limits their effectiveness. Argues that in order to engage Indigenous knowledge conservationists must reflect on their own ways of knowing and accept different understandings of ecology.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, Cultural Property in American Indian Literatures: Representation and Interpretation, Fall, 1997, pp. 663-673
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Argues that while Indigenous authors are determined to express their unique perspectives while doing so in a hostile environment..