New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multi-national Corporations - Softcover

Gedicks, Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551640007 ISBN 13: 9781551640006

Publisher: Black Rose Books, 1994

Synopsis

Gedicks paints a disturbing picture of the current environmental crisis, but points to hopeful signs of resistance and coalition that could successfully block multinational corporations' resources colonization of native lands.

About this title

From the Back Cover

In the northwoods of Wisconsin, Kennecott Copper Corporation is pressuring Native Americans for the right to construct an environmentally destructive open-pit copper mine on treaty lands of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. Opposing the mine's construction is a coalition of Chippewa traditionalists and Wisconsin environmentalists. This native and environmentalist struggle against corporate greed and environmental racism is mirrored in hundreds of similar struggles all over the world, from James Bay, Quebec and Malaysia to the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. Gedicks documents these struggles and explores the underlying motivations and social forces that propel them.

About the Author

LaDuke is a well-know Native American organizer, environmentalist, and author. She teaches Native Environmentalism at the University of Minnesota.

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551640007
• ISBN 13: 9781551640006
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250