Journals & Articles

Resources are listed chronologically; there is an overwhelming amount of news articles on Indigenous ecojustice issues, so we have only included  a handful of the most recent ones. You can find more in our News and Climate Emergency sections.

• White, Kyle. “Critical Investigations of Resilience: A Brief Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies & Sciences” 

• Hurley, Lawrence. “Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in water rights dispute.”ABC News. June 22, 2023. 
• Schröder, André. “The counterstrike: Brazilian Congress moves to block Lula’s environmental agenda.” Mongabay. June 1, 2023. 
• “Brazil’s Congress weakens environmental, Indigenous ministries.“ Al Jazeera. June 1, 2023. 
• Phillips, Tom. “Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were killed in the Amazon…A year later their Indigenous allies risk death to carry on the work.“ The Guardian. June 1, 2023. 
• Arias, Tatiana, et al. “Brazilian Indigenous groups protest as lawmakers approve bill limiting recognition of ancestral lands.“ CNN. May 31, 2023. 
• “MPs pass first major update to Canada’s most important environmental law in more than two decades.” Ecojustice. May 30, 2023.
• Deivanayagam, Thilagawathi Abi. “Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health, and racial justice.“ The Lancet. May 29, 2023. 
• Jang, Brett. “Environmental Groups Seek Review of B.C. Port Expansion Approval.“ The Globe and Mail. May 24, 2023.  
• Aquino, Lyric. “Biden administration pauses copper mining project on Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site.“ Grist. May 4, 2023. 
• Silva, Nina Bries. “Environmental Justice at the JEP and Indigenous Worldviews: A Mismatch?“ OpinioJuris. May 23,  2023.
• Ervin, Aanahita. “Student Voices: Climate Justice and Indigenous Knowledge.” Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy. April 24, 2023.
• Dent, John R. Oberholzer, Carolyn Smith, M. Cristina Gonzales, Alice B. Lincoln-Cook. “Getting Back to that Point of Balance: Indigenous Environmental Justice and the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association.” Ecology and Society 28, no. 1 (2023): 14.
• Clausen, Rebecca J., Carmenlita Chief, Nicolette I. Teufel-Shone, Manley A. Begay, Perry H. Charley Jr., Paloma I. Beamer, Nnenna Anako, Karletta Chief. “Diné-Centered Research Reframes the Gold King Mine Spill: Understanding Social and Spiritual Impacts Across Space and Time.” Journal of Rural Studies 97 (2023): 449-457.
• Rasmussen, Jennifer B. “Advancing Environmental Justice through the Integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Environmental Policy.” Challenges 14, no. 1 (2023): 6.
• Hasan, Mohammad Mahmud. “Development for Whom?: An Indigenous Environmental Justice Movement in Bangladesh.” Local Environment 27, no. 7 (2022): 863-878.
• Urzedo, Danilo, Simone Pedrini, Clancy Hearps, Kingsley Dixon, Stephen van Leeuwen. “Indigenous Environmental Justice through Coproduction of Mining Restoration Supply Chains in Australia.” Restoration Ecology 30, no. S1 (2022): e13748.
• Spencer, Michael. “Environmental Justice, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders.” Human Biology (2022). 
• Lee, Joseph. “‘We will all die if we continue like this’: Indigenous people push UN for climate justice.” Grist. September 21, 2022.
• Ho, Wing Ka. “Gender and Indigenous Climate Justice at the United Nations.” Earth.org. June 11, 2022.
• “A Growing Movement to Reclaim Water Rights for Indigenous People.“ Yes! Magazine. May 31, 2022. 
• Alfonseca, Kiara. “Indigenous climate efforts vital to fight against environmental destruction.“ ABC News. April 28, 2022.
• Wallace, Anthony J. “‘Soil justice’: How US Indigenous communities are using their land to overcome racial neglect.“ The New Humanitarian. April 7, 2022.
• Browne, Amelia. “Indigenous Climate Justice in a Warming Arctic.” Earth.org. March 14, 2022.
• Uyeda, Ray Levy. “‘Rights of Nature’ laws can strengthen Indigenous sovereignty, provide path to environmental justice.” Prism. February 22, 2022.
• Ing, Kaliela. “Indigenous Leadership for Transformative Climate Action.“ Yes! Magazine. November 17, 2021. 
• Miller, Ruth, Meda Dewitt and Margi Dashevsky. “Relatives, Not Resources: Applying an Alaska Native Lens to Climate Sovereignty, Economic Justice, and Healing.“ Non-profit Quarterly. November 16, 2021. 
• Kolhatkar, Sonali. “At COP26, Indigenous, Black, and Brown Activists Offer Radical Solutions for Climate Change.“ Yes! Magazine. November 15, 2021. 
• Lakhani, Nina. “‘A continuation of colonialism’: indigenous activists say their voices are missing at Cop26.“ The Guardian. November 3, 2021.
• McGregor, Deborah. “An Indigenous peoples’ approach to climate justice.“ Resilience. October 13, 2021. 
• Stefani, Giulia C.S. Good. “Indigenous Leaders at the Frontlines of Environmental Injustice and Solutions.” NRDC. October 11, 2021. 
• Patel, Mira. “How a threatened fish species highlights climate racism against indigenous peoples in the US.” Indian Express. July 15, 2021.
• Manjeshwar, Sanjana. “The Lasting Harms of Toxic Exposure in Native American Communities.“ Berkeley Political Review. July 10, 2021. 
• Dhoop, Vandana. “LEAF Coalition’s proposal is a step forward in saving forests, indigenous peoples.” Down to Earth. July 1, 2021.
• Flavelle, Christopher and Kalen Goodluck. “Dispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard.“ New York Times. June 27, 2021.
• “On climate change frontline, indigenous provide pointers to save planet.” UN News. June 25, 2021.
• Begay, Jade. “An Indigenous Systems Approach to the Climate Crisis.“ Stanford Social Innovation Review. June 10, 2021. 
• Ramirez, Rachel. “Pacific Islanders have been fighting environmental crises for centuries, if only the world would notice.“ Grist. June 1, 2021.
• Brooker, Jena. “A clear energy proposal near a sacred Indigenous site divides a Minnesota community.“ Grist. May 18, 2021.
• Fraser, Barbara. “Environmental justice award winner: ‘We have the right to live in a territory that for us is sacred’.” EarthBeat. April 12, 2021.
• Lewton, Thomas. “These People Are Losing Their Gods to Climate Change.” Vice. April 12, 2021.
• Roewe, Brian. “Indigenous youth lead on climate action, Loyola Chicago audience hears.” EarthBeat. March 19, 2021.
• Coggins, Shaugn, James D. Ford, et al. “Indigenous Peoples and Climate Justice in the Arctic.“ Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. February 23, 2021. 
• LaDuke, Winona. “Stopping Trump’s Last Pipeline Will Take All of Us.“ The Nation. January 7, 2021. 
• Cole, Peter and Pat O'Reily. “Indigenous Ecojustice Narratives in an Era of Climate Change and Pandemics.“ The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review 16: 1 (2020): 61-80.
• Thompson, Claire Elise. “Returning the Land: Four Indigenous leaders share insights about the growing landback movement and what it means for the planet.“ Fix/Grist .November 25, 2020. 
• “Freshwater Canada's Dirty Water Secret.” Human Rights Watch. October 28, 2020.
• Foxworth, Raymond. “Indigenous Communities and Environmental Justice.“ Non-profit Quarterly. October 9, 2020. 
• Aravind, Sakshi. “Indigenous Environmental Justice: a Need For Substantial Recognition of Indigenous Voices.“ Columbia University RightsWatch. October 9, 2020. 
• Guo. Demi. “Indigenous Artists Use Technology to Tell Stories About Their Ancestral Lands.” Yes! Magazine. June 15, 2020.
• Ladha, Alnoor and Felipe Viveros. “Indigenous peoples guard ‘the lungs of the planet’ for all of us.” Aljazeera. June 15, 2020. 
• Sayej, Nadja. “How artwork shows the impact of climate crisis on Indigenous Americans.” The Guardian. March 9, 2020.
• McGregor, Deborah, Steven Whitaker, and Mahisha Sritharan. “Indigenous Environmental Justice and Sustainability.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 43 (2020): 35–40. 
• Hernandez, Jessica, and Michael S. Spencer. “Weaving Indigenous Science into Ecological Sciences: Culturally Grounding Our Indigenous Scholarship.“ Human Biology 92, no. 1 (2020): 5-9. doi:10.13110/humanbiology.92.1.05.
• Galey, Patrick. “Indigenous peoples key to saving threatened forests.” Phys.org. January 7, 2020.
• Uyeda, Ray Levy. “The Red Deal Is an Indigenous Climate Plan That Builds on the Green New Deal.“ Teen Vogue. November 1, 2019. 
• Boffa, Adam. “'We Are Nations:' What Environmental Justice Looks Like For Indigenous People.“ Gizmodo. October 14, 2019. 
• Gerster, Jane and Krista Hessey.“Why Some First Nations Still Don't Have Clean Drinking Water - despite Trudeau's Promise.” Global News. October 3, 2019.
• Pagliarini, Andre. “What Indigenous Rights Have to Do With Fighting Climate Change.“ The New Republic. August 7, 2019. 
• Hernandez, Jessica. “Indigenizing Environmental Justice: Case Studies from the Pacific Northwest.“ Environmental Justice 12: 4(2019).
• Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. “The Story We've Been Told About America's National Parks Is Incomplete.“ Time Magazine. April 2, 2019. 
• Westcott, Todd et al. “Water Contaminants Jeopardize First Nations Food Security.” Water Canada. November 8, 2019. 
• Titon, Jeff Todd. “Ecojustice, Religious Folklife, and a Sound Ecology.” Yale Journal of Music and Religion 5, no. 2 (2019), article 7.
• Kopnina, Helen. “Indigenous Rights and Ecological Justice in Amazonia: Exploring Ethics of Wilderness Conservation.“ International Journal of Wilderness 25: 1(April 2019).
• “In India, Indigenous Tribes Clash With the Government Over Trees.” Undark. 2020.
• Millar, John and Bob Rae. “Money Alone Won't Solve the Water Crisis in Indigenous Communities.” Macleans. March 29, 2018.
• World Water Day: The state of drinking water in Indigenous communities. Ecojustice. March 22,  2018. 
• Dhillon, Jaskiran. “What Standing Rock Teaches Us About Environmental Justice.“ Social Science Research Council: items. December 5, 2017. 
• Bang, M., Adam Curley, Ananda Marin, Eli S. Suzukovich, and George Strack. “Muskrat Theories: Tobacco in the Streets, and Living Chicago as Indigenous Land.” Environmental Education Research 20, no. 1 (2014): 37–55.
• Kulnieks, Andrejs, Dan Longboat, Kelly Young. “Engaging Literacies Through Ecologically Minded Curriculum: Educatin Teachers About Indigenous Knowledges Through an
  Ecojustice Education Framework.“ in education. 19(2) Autumn 2013.
• Tuck, Eve, and Kevin Wang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Indigeneity, Education, & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40.
• Schlosberg, David and David Carruthers. “Indigenous Struggles, Environmental Justice, and Community Capabilities.“ Global Environmental Politics (2010) 10 (4): 12–35.
• Blackford, Mansel. “Environmental Justice, Native Rights, Tourism, and Opposition to Military Control: The Case of Kaho’olawe.” Journal of American History 91, no. 2 (2004): 544–71.
• Harvey, Graham. “Environmentalism in the Construction of Indigeneity.” Ecotheology: Journal of Religion, Nature and the Environment 8, no. 2 (2003): 206–23.
• Ishayama, N. “Environmental Justice and American Indian Tribal Sovereignty: Case Study of a Land-Use Conflict in Skull Valley, Utah.” Antipode 35, no. 1 (2003): 119–40.
• Robyn, Linda. “Indigenous Knowledge and Technology.” American Indian Quarterly 26, no. 2 (2002): 198–221.
• Fried, Stephanie. “Shoot the Horse to Get the Rider: Religion and Forest Politics in Bentian Borneo.” In Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, edited by John A. Grim, 71-99. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
• Gonzales, Tirso A., and Melissa K. Nelson. “Contemporary Native American Responses to Environmental Threats in Indian Country.” In Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, edited by John A. Grim, 495-538. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
• Greaves, Tom. “Contextualizing the Environmental Struggle.” In Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, edited by John A. Grim, 25-45. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
• Kothari, Smitu. “Sovereignty and Swaraj: Adivasi Encounters with Modernity and Majority.” In Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, edited by John A. Grim, 453-464. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
• Macdonald, Mary N. “Changing Habits, Changing Habitats: Melanesian Environmental Knowledge.” In Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, edited by John A. Grim, 591-617. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
• Prabhu, Pradip. “In the Eye of the Storm: Tribal Peoples of India.” In Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, edited by John A. Grim, 47-69. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
• Prajuli, Pramod. “Learning from Ecological Ethnicities: Toward a Plural Political Ecology of Knowledge.” In Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, edited by John A. Grim, 559-589. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
• Tinker, George. “Community and Ecological Justice: A Native American Response.” In Earth at Risk: An Environmental Dialogue Between Religion and Science, edited by Rodney Petersen and Donald Conroy, 239–59. Amherst: Humanity Books, 2000.
• Gruzalski, Bart. “The Chipko Movement: A Gandhian Approach to Ecological Sustainability and Liberation from Economic Colonization.” In Ethical and Political Dilemmas of Modern India, edited by Smart Ninian and Shivesh Thakur, 100–125. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
• Wade, Davis. “Death of a People: Logging in the Penan Homeland.” In State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger, edited by Marc S. Miller, 23–32. Boston: Beacon, 1993.
• Yenilmez, Sena. “Impacts of unsafe drinking water on Indigenous reserves.” The Indigenous Foundation. 

 

Header Image: Indigenous protest in Ambato, Ecuador against the economic and environmental policies of President Guillermo Lasso, 2022; Daniel Constante/Shutterstock