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Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice
Ecology and Justice Series
Format: Book
Publication Date: Nov 30, 1995
Publisher: Orbis Books
Sources ID: 86211
Visibility: Public (group default)
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Defending Mother Earth brings together important Native voices to addres urgent issues of environmental devastation affecting indigenous peoples thorugh the Americas. These essays documenta range of problems, including the devastating effects of mining, nuclear power facilities, toxic waste dumps, and water pollution.As the contributors demonstrate, the struggles to stop these threats are intimately tied to the assertion of American Indian swovereignty and the affirmation of Native culture: the Earth is, indeed, Mother to all these nations. In his concluding reflection, George Tinker argues that the affirmation of Indian spiritual values, epecially the attitude twoard the Earth, may hold out a key to the survival of the planet, and all its peoples.