How Does The Legacy of Settler Expansion & Industrialization Destroy Indigenous Livelihood?

Expanded NarrativesHistory in the Headlines

Dec 13

Thousands of protestors joined Indigenous activists at Standing Rock to fight for clean drinking water. At its core, this fight echoes the legacy of broken treaties and settler industrialization. Producer Lily Sones talks with Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) about how industrialization halted traditional indigenous food ways and how extractive industries cause health effects across today’s indigenous communities.

Dina Gilio-Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and columnist. She is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, and independent consultant and educator on environmental justice and other Indigenous policy-related issues. She is the author of As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock and co-author with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz of 'All the Real Indians Died Off' and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans. She lives in San Clemente, California.

BOOK:

As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock

GUEST:

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

PRODUCER:

Lily Sones

PRODUCTION:

Pod People

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