This quarter I'm taking time to read about Environmental Justice issues amoung Native American populations. I have never thought much about EJ before on an academic level so I will undouptedly learn a bunch this quarter. On this page I intend to place some of my reading material. If you have questions you can always send me an email with questions or perhaps recommend some strong reading material.

Superfund: Evaluating the Impact of Executive Order 12898. Sanda O’Neil. Environmental Health Perspectives. July 2007. 115. 1087-093.

Native Specific:
Environmental Justice in Indian Country: Dumpsite Remediation on the Swinomish Indian Reservation. Nicholas C. Zaferatos. Environmental Manage (2006) 38:896-909.

Chapter 5. A “Necessary Sacrifice:’ Industrialization and American Indian Lands. John Byrne and Steve Hoffman. Environmental Justice Discourse in International Political Economy. (2002). 97-118.

Native and Environmental Movements.Linking the Native Movement for Soverignty and the Environmental Movement. Zoltan Grossman. Z Magazine 8 (1995). (11):42-45.

The Tribal Environment: Solid Waste in Indian Country. James Ortiz. Environmental Management (2003). 31. 355-64.

Environmental Genocide: Native Americans and Toxic Waste. Daniel Brook. American Journal of Economics and Sociology. (1998). 57. 105-113.

Historical and Contemporary Policies regarding Off--Reservation Hunting by Native Americans. Scott McCorquodale. 1999. 27. 446-455.

The Treadmill of Destruction: National Sacrifice Areas and Native Americans. Gregory Hooks and Chad L. Smith. American Sociology Review. 2004. 69. 558-575.

Holitic Risk-Based Environmental Decision Making: A Native Perspective. Mary Arquette et al. 2002. 110. 259-264.

Who Decides the Law of the Land? Environmental Health Perspectives. 1998. 106.

BOOKS:
The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. Edited by Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans and Rachel Stein. The University of Arizona Press. 2002.

New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism. Edited by Rachel Stein. The State University of New Jersey. 2004.

The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution. Edited by Robert Bullard. Sierra Club Books. 2005.

The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations. By Al Gedicks. 1993. >p> Defending Mother Earth: Native Perspectives on Environmental Justice. Edited by Jace Weaver. Orbis Books. 1996.

OTHER:
Executive Order 12898 under Clinton in 1994: http://www.mms.gov/eppd/compliance/12898/guidance.htm

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Updated July 2008