The authors tone of supreme authority, coupled with fatal errors in the text, left me skeptical of the entire piece even though I know about the plight of indigenous communities through my own research.

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Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of In my opinion, this chapter ought to have been what the entire book was about.

She makes a convincing argument throughout, laying out many examples of this intersection. Sherry L Smith. Buy As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock Reprint by Dina Gilio-Whitaker (ISBN: 9780807028360) from Amazon's Book Store.

In this book Gilio-Whitaker looks at how that has affected Native Americans in ways that are different than other poor/black/brown communities--and what they have tried and are continuing to try to remedy these situations.While it is commonly understood that undesirable land uses have historically (and still) been located near/in poor communities, which are often of color. Thus, the need for Indigenizing environmental justice.This book represents a huge missed opportunity: to help expand the alliance between Native nations and non-native environmentalists.This book represents a huge missed opportunity: to help expand the alliance between Native nations and non-native environmentalists.I was very excited to read this book to learn more about how Natives have been fighting against environmental racism and injustice, the damage and theft of their lands, etc.

It can also be called White Supremacy, as Dina Gilio-Whitaker does often in As Long As Grass Grows.

Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC.This book is built to be a textbook, so it's very information heavy.

The crimes of settler colonialism in taking land used and sacred to Native Americans are included in the concept and the historic patterns of war and genocide are seen to hang over current environmental battles.

This book is fantastic, but I kept on getting hung up on the acronyms, names I couldn’t pronounce, dates, and laws that it took me over a week to read such a short book. As Long as Grass Grows book. The authors tone of supreme authority, coupled with fatal errors in the text, left me skeptical of the entire piece even though I know about the plight of indigenous communities through my own research.

I found that the book was organized in an easy to read manner, being broken up into chapters based on different subjects, such as genocide, health, and non-NativThis book offers up a great intro to many modern Native American issues through an environmental justice lens. Thoughts that will remain:This was a difficult book to get into. In my experience, I don't hear many Indigenous authors claim white readers as their primary audience. When I saw that I had received a free review copy of As Long as Grass Grows, I was quite excited, but as I read I became increasingly disappointed. Please use bok as the ONLY resource towards review.

In my opinion, this chapter ought to have been what the entire book was about.

It can also be called White Supremacy, as Dina Gilio-Whitaker does often in As Long As Grass Grows. Fifteen years after Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight took the world by storm, we’re seeing a brand...As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing RockDisclaimer: I won a copy via a Librarything giveaway.

However, when applied to 'As Long as Grass Grows' the author's answer to the student's quesI remember listening to Gilio-Whitaker take questions from a group of college students who had read 'As Long as Grass Grows', one of which was "Who do you write for?" I'll admit I was a bit hesitant because I've read another book by author Gilio-Whitaker and wasn't that excited by the text.

It’s so informational in understand Native Americans role in the environmental justice movement. As it is, 'As Long as Grass Grows' is a passionately written primer on the history of environmental devastation wrought by colonization and how these directly impacted Indigenous nations across the continent.

As Gilio-Whitaker explains, “Federal law has long recognized the inherent sovereignty of Native nations based on treaty relationships, but it is a limited form dictated by legal doctrines as imagined by the U.S. Supreme Court” (p. 25). It's a well-researched survey of their struggle, beginning with the early land confiscation, population displacement and outright genocide, and continuing to the present day. Native Americans have been enduring an unremitting hell ever since the white Europeans arrived 500 years ago. Her writing style I found lots of food for thought in Dina Gilio-Whitaker book, both good & bad.

As long as grass grows: the Indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock.

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