"Modern America Desperately Needs to Listen": The Emerging Indian in an Age of Environmental Crisis

Rosier, Paul C.

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“…This work can be framed in terms of regional environmental histories, including accounts of struggles over landscapes and environmental features and the consequences of dams, pipelines, and other energy facilities, resource developments, and military activities. However, environmental historians have been slow to incorporate these dimensions of Indigenous knowledge into their discipline: by one account, scholarship in American environmental history has tended to assume that Indigenous people have not been significant actors after 1900 (Rosier 2013).…”

Section: Resurgencementioning

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Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives

Bocking

2023

Historiographies of Science

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Indigenous knowledge, once dismissed as mere folklore, is now widely recognized as an essential dimension of global environmental knowledge. Indigenous people, once excluded, now participate across a range of environmental affairs. Understanding how and why this has occurred requires attention to a complex history of scientists and others constructing ideas about Indigenous knowledge. A variety of scholars, including historians of science, environmental historians, and political ecologists have examined this history, identifying the factors that have influenced expert, public, and institutional perceptions of Indigenous knowledge. These include various colonial and postcolonial contexts, ideas about development, changes in the natural environment, disciplinary perspectives (such as those of anthropology), and shifting views of human-environment relations. Indigenous peoples – as knowledge producers, brokers, and intermediaries – have been crucial to these evolving perceptions, by asserting that their knowledge can be a means of achieving change in both knowledge and politics. The Arctic provides a distinctive setting in which the historical construction of Indigenous knowledge can be examined in more detail.

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Section: Resurgencementioning

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Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives

Bocking

2023

Historiographies of Science

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“…Indigenous leaders were successful in linking environmental concerns with demands for sovereignty, for example, in the fight against the construction of the Kinzua Dam in the Seneca Nation' s Allegany Territory, and in the "fish wars" over salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest. 81 These early environmental-justice efforts paralleled and intersected continued commercial resource extraction by Indigenous nations. Active Seneca oil and gas leases were among the legal hurdles that stalled the Kinzua Dam project in the late 1950s, and leases were transferred and renegotiated throughout the following decades.…”

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The Most Valuable Lands

John¹,

Puglionesi²

2023

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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The oil-producing regions of western Pennsylvania and New York are legendary as the birthplace of the modern petroleum industry; as with any narrative of American origins, it is important to scrutinize the role of racism and colonialism in establishing narratives that render Indigenous people as ghosts, guides, or givers who facilitate white access to resources while fading into a mythical past. Such narratives certainly proliferated in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular press, where petroleum was initially known by its regional moniker, “Seneca Oil,” and dreams of “Indian spirits” were said to lead prospectors to successful holes. The reality was that the Seneca people waged active legal and political battles to secure their rights to land, resources, and sacred sites in Pennsylvania and New York throughout the height of the oil boom. Their historical relationship with oil as a healing natural substance led leaders to preserve the Oil Spring Territory between 1797 and 1801; a century later, Seneca leaders engaged in ever-more complex negotiations with white-owned oil companies, and wound up in an existential fight against the Americans attempting to liquidate their treaty-protected territories.

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Indigenous Identity, Forced Transracial Removal, and Intergenerational Trauma in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer

Ahokas

2017

International Adoption in North American Literature and Culture

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"Modern America Desperately Needs to Listen": The Emerging Indian in an Age of Environmental Crisis

Cited by 14 publications

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Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives

Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives

The Most Valuable Lands

Indigenous Identity, Forced Transracial Removal, and Intergenerational Trauma in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms and Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer

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