Slide 3: Sources
Slide 8: This image is from Oka on the Mohawk reservation in Quebec Canada right near Montreal. Students will find it enlightening to read about Oka, where Mohawk warriors fought against having a golf course built on what they considered to be tribal land. In more recent years similar struggles have arisen over construction of housing developments on traditional Mohawk land. These are serious issues, and are comparable in some ways to ethnic struggles in the Balkans.
Slide 9: One of the most important issues is the designation of National Sacrifice Areas, where Indian lands and reservations are used for military bombing tests, storage of toxic wastes, and subjected to heavy pollution of both water and air that would not be tolerated in urban or suburban communities. This relates to the question posed above, about whether the location of Indian reservations constitute Environmental Justice issues solely because of their existence?