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Native American Environmentalism - Land, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness (Paperback)
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Native American Environmentalism - Land, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness (Paperback)
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In Native American Environmentalism the history of indigenous
peoples in North America is brought into dialogue with key
environmental terms such as “wilderness” and “nature.” The
conflict between Christian environmentalist thinking and indigenous
views, a conflict intimately linked to the current environmental
crisis in the United States, is explored through an analysis of
parks and wilderness areas, gardens and gardening, and indigenous
approaches to land as expressed in contemporary art, novels, and
historical writing. Countering the inclination to associate
indigenous peoples with “wilderness” or to conflate everything
“Indian” with a vague sense of the ecological, Joy Porter shows
how Indian communities were forced to migrate to make way for the
nation’s “wilderness” parks in the nineteenth century. Among
the first American communities to reckon with environmental
despoliation, they have fought significant environmental battles
and made key adaptations. By linking Native American history to
mainstream histories and current debates, Porter advances the
important process of shifting debate about climate change away from
scientists and literary environmental writers, a project central to
tackling environmental crises in the twenty-first century.
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