Indigenous Environmental Justice by Vanessa Levy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431 Resources related to environmental issues in Native American communities are compiled below. Items are color coded by the topic of which they are most related and organized semi-chronologically within each topic. This site begins with red items, then blue, purple, and green. Red items focus most on information regarding sacred sites and cultural resources. Blue items focus most on issues pertaining to water access and rights. Purple items are most related to resources on dam development, and green issues are most related to mining and resource extraction. en-us 2021-09-16 13:33:36 UTC 2022-02-25 19:49:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f99f.png “Native American Sacred Sites and the Department of Defense” report by Vine Deloria Jr and Richard W Stoffle, June 1998 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941048018 2021-12-10 20:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941048018 “The Land Still Speaks: Traditional Cultural Property Eligibility Statements for Gold Strike Canyon, Nevada and Sugarloaf Mountain, Arizona,” by Stoffle et al, June 2000 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941048936 2021-12-10 20:16:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941048936 “Shifting Risks: Hoover Dam Bridge Impacts on American Indian Sacred Landscapes,” by Stoffle et al, chapter 8 from Facility Siting: Risk, Power, and Identity in Land Use Planning, 2004 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941049756 2021-12-10 20:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941049756 “About the Hualapai Nation” by The Hualapai Department of Cultural Resources, April 2010 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941050080 2021-12-10 20:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941050080 “Apache-Stronghold” site about Oak Flats (2015) nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941051211 2021-12-10 20:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941051211 “Massive mine proposed at Oak Flat, sacred tribal land” by Emily Bregel from Tucson.com, April 2018 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941052695 2021-12-10 20:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941052695 “Lake Powell Pipeline Project: Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Cultural and Ethnographic Resources: The Official Southern Paiute Cultural Assessment,” prepared by Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians, February 2020 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941053671 2021-12-10 20:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941053671 “Conversations from the Pointed Firs: Poet and activist Mihku Paul” from the Main Monitor, June 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941054206 2021-12-10 20:20:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941054206 “Projects aim to preserve unique tribal cultural history,” from Mohave Valley Daily News, October 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941054902 2021-12-10 20:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941054902 “Indigenous advocates seek protections for Avi Kwa Ame following Bear Ears,” from Wyoming Public Radio, October 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941055428 2021-12-10 20:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941055428 “Sacred Spaces: How legal and cultural barriers keep Indigenous people from protecting sacred spaces off tribal land” by Krol, November 2021 (large piece) nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941055823 2021-12-10 20:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941055823 “A River Once Ran Through It,” about the Colorado River Delta, published on NWF in February 2002 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941061170 2021-12-10 20:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941061170 “Environment and Ecology of the Colorado River Basin, by Natalie Triedman, 2012 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941061616 2021-12-10 20:27:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941061616 “Do some work for me: Settler colonialism, professional communication, and representations of Indigenous water” by Jane Griffith, January 2018 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941061945 2021-12-10 20:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941061945 “In a desert, I learned to fish,” by Maya L Kapoor (on dams), June 2018 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941062723 2021-12-10 20:28:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941062723 “The country’s cheapest water is in the West’s driest cities,” by Kapoor, October 2018 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941063334 2021-12-10 20:29:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941063334 “Indigenous Water Justice,” by Barbara Cosens, et al 2018 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941063791 2021-12-10 20:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941063791 “Unsettling Indian Water Settlements: The Little Colorado River, the San Juan River, and Colonial Enclosures,” by Andrew Curley, April 2019 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941064410 2021-12-10 20:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941064410 “Water rights for tribes is environmental justice” on azcapitoltimes.com, February 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941064739 2021-12-10 20:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941064739 “A sacred river in danger: native communities fear the future along the Colorado River” by Will Lowry, July 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941065188 2021-12-10 20:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941065188 “Tribes Struggle for Water in Colorado River Basin as Drought Sears the West” by Paloma Green, July 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941065476 2021-12-10 20:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941065476 “The Colorado River is drying up. Here’s how that affects Indigenous water rights,” by Mark Armao, October 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941066115 2021-12-10 20:31:34 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941066115 “Hoover Dam Bypass Project Administrative Draft: Environmental Impact Statement,” by Federal Highway Administration, July 1998 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941074064 2021-12-10 20:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941074064 “Ha ‘tata (The Backbone of the River): American Indian Ethnographic Studies Regarding the Hoover Dam Bypass Project” prepared by the scholars at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona, July 2000 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941074447 2021-12-10 20:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941074447 “Resurrecting the Dammed: A Look at Colorado River Restoration, by Jeffrey P. Cohn December 2001 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941074822 2021-12-10 20:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941074822 “A Conservation Plan for Native Fishes of the Lower Colorado River,” by Minckley et al, March 2003 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941075408 2021-12-10 20:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941075408 “The Gender of Water and the Pleasure of Alienation: A Critical Analysis of Visiting the Hoover Dam,” by Richard A Rogers and Julie Schutten from Northern Arizona University, August 2010 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941075734 2021-12-10 20:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941075734 “Hoover Dam: Scientific Studies, Name Controversy, Tourist Attraction, and Contributions to Engineering” by J David Rogers, October 2010 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941077438 Dominant settler perspective on the Hoover Dam with global implications]]> 2021-12-10 20:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941077438 “Reading Boulder Dam: Landscape Alteration as National Transformation in 1930s America” by K. Maria D Lane, Summer 2012 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941078022 2021-12-10 20:43:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941078022 “Here and There: The Effects of Upriver Dams on Indigenous Peoples,” by Benedict J. Colombi, November 2014 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941078588 2021-12-10 20:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941078588 “Boulder Dam and the Navajo Reservation,” November 2014 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941079081 2021-12-10 20:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941079081 “THE BOULDER CANYON PROJECT Hoover Dam,” by Joe Simonds/Bureau of Reclamation, August 2015 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941081402 Another dominant settler perspective on the Hoover Dam, coming from the Bureau of Reclamation's official website This history of the dam also has global implications. It claims that the goal of the dam was, "To Convert a Natural Menace Into a National Resource," and that "they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams." ]]> 2021-12-10 20:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941081402 The official site for a film titled, "DamNation," (2015) which discusses dam removal projects from settler and Indigenous perspectives. nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941082805 2021-12-10 20:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941082805 “Hoover Damn: Land, Labor, and Settler Colonial Cultural Production,” by Jane Griffith, April 2016 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941083103 2021-12-10 20:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941083103 “The Diversity of the Hoover Dam” NPS site, April 2017 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941084419 Another dominant settler perspective on the history of the Hoover Dam, coming directly from the National Park Service's website. ]]> 2021-12-10 20:49:24 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941084419 “A new era of uranium mining near the Grand Canyon?” by Kapoor, June 2018 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941085177 2021-12-10 20:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941085177 “Environmental experts push back on Canadian company’s plans to mine for metal in Maine” from The Maine Monitor, February 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941085519 2021-12-10 20:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941085519 “Nevada lithium mine kicks off a new era of Western extraction” by Kapoor, February 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941086091 One of the first publications I found online about lithium mining in the southwest and its impact on Indigenous communities. This one focuses more on threats to clean water. #lithium ]]> 2021-12-10 20:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941086091 “Mining for lithium, at a cost to Indigenous religions” by Kapoor, June 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941086444 a second publication about lithium mining in the West, this time focusing on Ivan Bender's account and protection of sacred sites #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 20:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941086444 “Tribe, Ranchers Say Proposed Lithium Mine in Wikieup Will ‘Ruin’ Their Water,” from Phoenix New Times, June 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941086825 #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 20:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941086825 “Sacred Is as Sacred Sells” by Wallace Kaufman, July 2021 on lithium mining connections to Biden nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941087231 a settler take on the conflict between the Biden admin's increased interest in lithium and the Hualapai nation -- represents misunderstanding of Indigenous history and worldview #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 20:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941087231 “Past, Future Collide in Dispute Over Northern Nevada Lithium Mine,” from Nevada Public Radio, August 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941088717 #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 20:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941088717 “Local tribal members join stand against lithium mining in Arizona and Salton Sea” from East County Magazine, October 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941089029 shows broader resistance to multiple lithium mining projects in the Southwest, along with the demands made to the mining company and BLM #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 20:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941089029 “Native opposition to Nevada lithium mine grows,” by Maddie Stone, October 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941089703 #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 20:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941089703 “Mining Atop a Massacre,” by Yessenia Funes, October 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941091425 #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 20:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941091425 “First Person Accounts – Saying No to The Lithium Mine at Thacker Pass,” by Opposition Voices to Thacker Pass Lithium Mining Project, October 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941092085 Amazing prose by members of the tribal nations impacted by the Thacker Pass project, Gary McKinney and Jeremiah Johnson #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 20:57:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941092085 “Ivan Bender of the Hualapai Tribe on Sacred Spring of Ka’kamwe’ Threatened by Lithium Mining in AZ,” youtube video, September 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941092840 taken by Max Wilbert in protest camp at Thacker Pass, Bender visits in solidarity. He mentions his visit to Standing Rock as well #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 20:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941092840 Main site for opposition to lithium mining in Wikieup: "Protect Ha'Kamwe'/No Lithium Mine." nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941095435 Information and gofundme page for protectors of Ha'Kamwe' sacred site protectors/protesters against lithium mining. #lithium]]> 2021-12-10 21:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941095435 A reply tweet from @sari_diplonerd about bitcoin mining and Navajo sovereignty nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941100836 This tweet responds to an article on coindesk.com and cites an article from the New Yorker. ]]> 2021-12-10 21:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941100836 “Mining Bitcoin with the Navajo Nation/Everyone Can Mine Bitcoin,” youtube video from November 2021 nessalevy https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941102617 2021-12-10 21:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nessalevy/tv3k81fio2b1o431/wish/1941102617