Join us to discuss As Long as the Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker. We will meet on Zoom on Monday, March 10 at 6:30 p.m. Please email Sharon Slettehaugh (s.slettehaugh@gmail.com) to join the email list and receive the Zoom link.
*Please note that Evening Book Club moved to the second Monday to avoid some holidays and big LWV events.
"The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community's rich history of activism.
Through the unique lens of "Indigenized environmental justice," Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy."
