Rocking the Native Vote

LaDuke, Winona

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“…Beginning in the 1970s, Native Peoples began to resist the health, cultural and ecological threats to their lives presented by uranium mining and uranium waste storage, which had by that point, accumulated its hazards to Native Peoples’ existence for more than two decades. LaDuke (1979) wrote about the new form of resistance to uranium percolating in Native Peoples’ communities in the 1970s:…”

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Native American victimization and resistance: an examination of uranium mining in the Northwest and Northern Plains

Fegadel,

Lynch

2023

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the genocidal impacts of uranium mining for Native Americans in the Northwest and Northern Plains, as well as their resistance to historical and contemporary acts of colonialism. Design/methodology/approach Using a case study approach, this study gathered qualitative data from various government, tribal and news sources to investigate the extent of ecological violence experienced by Native Americans specific to uranium mining processes on Spokane Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge Reservation and Wind River Reservation. Findings Native Americans in the Northwest and Northern Plains are victimized by the capitalism-genocide involved in uranium production. The consequences of the uranium industry boom in the 1950s–1980s has left Native Americans with degraded lands, polluted water sources and a legacy of adverse health effects, including some of the highest rates of cancer. Social implications The work discussed in this paper offers possibilities for collaborating with Native Americans to develop more sustainable energy options for the USA to make the necessary shift away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Originality/value Prior research has addressed the genocidal impacts of uranium mining for Native Americans in the Southwest USA and claimed these actions were direct consequences of toxic colonialism, capitalistic agendas and the treadmill of production (Fegadel, 2023). Most uranium was recovered from ore deposits within the Colorado Plateau, and most abandoned uranium mines (AUMs) are located within the same region. Tribes residing in the Northwest and Northern Plains have, however, experienced similar plights as those in the Southwest, but these issues have not been widely examined.

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Native American victimization and resistance: an examination of uranium mining in the Northwest and Northern Plains

Fegadel,

Lynch

2023

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“…colonial frontier logic symbolized by the fort-the pervasive separation of Indigenous and settler folks within settler colonial society-Indigenous scholars and posthumanists 3 rarely have sustained conversation with one another in public academic discourse. Some Indigenous scholars have broken up with the Deleuzian thinking that informs posthumanisms (Tuck, 2010), others remain critical of the settler colonial logics endemic to the paradigm(s) (Todd, 2016), while others still are rightfully more concerned with the ever-growing list of issues immediately concerning Indigenous peoples (e.g., LaDuke, 2020;Palmater, 2020). On the posthumanist side, there are a few honest attempts at understanding Indigenous thinking 4 (e.g., Nxumalo & Cedillo, 2017), but more discussion is still needed between situated, place-specific Indigenous knowledges and the "emerging" work with/ on/in posthumanisms.…”

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(Re)Envisioning Childhoods With Mi’kmaw Literatures

Downey

2022

J Child. Stud.

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A generative reading of four recent children’s books by Mi’kmaw authors through Indigenous and posthumanist lenses, this article suggests that Indigenous children’s literature works at envisioning a “very old” future and highlights the counter-hegemonic potential of that future in the current moment. First, a reading of the Mi’kmaw mythopoetic tradition as speculative fiction is presented. Second, becoming-with Land is discussed as a radical pedagogical future. Third, the tensions between Indigenous and posthumanist theories are discussed, along with the generative potential of those tensions. The article concludes by highlighting the power of the very old futures (re)emergent from very old stories.

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Rocking the Native Vote

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Native American victimization and resistance: an examination of uranium mining in the Northwest and Northern Plains

Native American victimization and resistance: an examination of uranium mining in the Northwest and Northern Plains

(Re)Envisioning Childhoods With Mi’kmaw Literatures

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