EJ Issues and Case Studies

Suggested Topics and Readings:

• Science and Environmental justice: Local knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Science

  • • Read: [ER] “Agriculture Unbound: Cultivating the Ground

• • Between Science Traditions,” in Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca

    • Read: Stewart, Ch. 3

  • Toxic/Hazardous Waste

  • Mining

    • Read: Mutz, Ch. 13

  • Oak Flat Land Exchange

  • Tar Creek

  • Water: Quantity, Quality, and Rights

    • Read: Mutz, Ch. 3; Grijalva, Ch. 3 and Ch. 4

  • Subsistence: Hunting, Fishing, Gathering and other Natural Resource Rights

    • Film: Oil on Ice

  • Fire: Uncharacteristic High Intensity Running Crown Fires, Indigenous Burning and Forest Management Practices

    • Read: Stewart, pp. 65-69 and one of the following as assigned:

      • “The Eastern Woodlands”

      • “Prairies and Plains”

      • “The Mountain West”

  • Sacred Sites

    • Read: Assignments from Seibert

    • Film: In the Light of Reverence

  • Growth and Development

  • “Free” Trade and Immigration

Additional Case Studies can be obtained from:

Environmental Justice II

The Evergreen College Enduring Legacies Native Cases

Sacred Land Film Project