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Environmental Justice: Indigenous communities
"Indigenous peoples are among the first to face the direct consequences of climate change, due to their dependence upon, and close relationship, with the environment and its resources. Climate change exacerbates the difficulties already faced by indigenous communities including political and economic marginalization, loss of land and resources, human rights violations, discrimination and unemployment."
--United Nations, www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/climate-change.html
Selected books
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: The Search for Legal RemediesExplores the ways in which indigenous peoples across the world are challenged by climate change impacts, and discusses the legal resources available to confront those challenges.
Tribes, Land, and the EnvironmentStudies the practice of tribal sovereignty with an emphasis on the development and regulatory challenges these tribes face in the wake of climate change.
Closing the Circle: Environmental Justice in Indian CountryAnalyzes how an anomalous confluence of federal environmental, administrative and Indian law exacerbates environmental injustice in Indian country.
Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural LandsCase studies in which Native communities and their rural neighbors join together to protect natural resources against threats such as mines, dams, or an oil pipeline.
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United StatesWith a long history and deep connection to the Earth's resources, indigenous peoples have an intimate understanding and ability to observe the impacts linked to climate change. Traditional ecological knowledge and tribal experience play a key role in developing future scientific solutions for adaptation to the impacts.
Native Women and LandStudy of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster.
Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal ConservationExamines new and innovative ideas concerning Native land conservancies, providing advice on land trusts, collaborations, and conservation groups.
As long as grass grows: the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing RockInterrogates the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples; ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to effective organizing and allyship
Suggested search terms
Also try the terms "Indians of North America" or "indigenous peoples"