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Author:

Schilling, Vincent.

Title:

Native defenders of the environment / Vincent Schilling.

Publisher:

7th Generation/Native Voices,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xvi, 127 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Indigenous peoples--Ecology.
Indian activists.
Environmentalism.
Environmental justice.
Indigenous peoples.
Native Americans.
Environmental movement.
Environmental protection.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Melina Laboucan-Massimo (Lubicon Lake Band of Cree) -- Winona LaDuke (White Earth Band of Ojibwe) -- Clayton Thomas-Muller (Mathais Colomb Cree Nation) -- Ben Powless (Mohawk) -- Tom Goldtooth (Navajo/Dakota) -- Grace Thorpe (Sac and Fox Nation) -- Sarah James (Gwich'in) -- Enei Begaye (Navajo) and Evon Peter (Gwich'in) -- Klee Benally (Navajo) -- Teague Allston (Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia).

Summary:

Presents stories of courage, determination, and resistance to multinational corporations and disastrous government policies that are harming the planet and describes how eleven Native people work to save our environment.

Series:

Native trailblazers series

ISBN:

0977918378 (pbk.)
9780977918379 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)687710507

LCCN:

2011023830

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)