Defending the Arctic refuge : a photographer, an Indigenous nation, and a fight for environmental justice

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"Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this...

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) Government policy History 20th century

Environmental justice Alaska Citizen participation

Environmentalists Political activity United States

Gwich'in Political activity

Kohm, Lenny, 1939-2014 Political activity

Photographers Political activity United States

Show-and-tell presentations Political aspects

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Flows, migrations, and exchanges

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ISBN:

9781469661100
1469661101

Description:

pages cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

On the road
The last great wilderness
The sacred place where life begins
Lenny's epiphany
Glendon Brunk's epiphany
Delivering Bosco
The little white man who never sleeps
The slide show at the Art Farm
Science and skulduggery
I hope people from the south listen
Rebirth of a nation
The Arctic Refuge in a broader frame
Grassroots versus Goliath
Catastrophe and the coalition of conscience
Native corporations and Arctic drilling
A victory for the grassroots
Gwich'in recruits, Gwich'in lives
Budget showdown
Turning spectators into activists
9/11
Flat, white nothingness?
How the Refuge survived the W. years
Building a bigger choir
The slide show in Old Crow

LCCN:

2020046382

Control Number:

3047623

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