Native Americans’ Environmental Justice: Expanded in Scope and Time

Native Americans’ Environmental Justice:

Expanded in Scope and Time

 

CHAIR: STOFFLE, Richard (BARA, U Arizona)

STOFFLE, Richard (BARA, U Arizona) and VAN

VLACK, Kathleen (Living Heritage) Native Americans’

Environmental Justice Expanded in Scope and Time

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STOFFLE, Richard (BARA, U Arizona) and VAN VLACK, Kathleen (Living Heritage)

Native Americans’ Environmental Justice Expanded in Scope and Time.

Environmental Justice was initially defined by Bunyon Bryant at the Institute

for Social Research at the University of Michigan. His research, centered

largely in Detroit, identified special and unequal impacts absorbed by African

Ancestry people due to development projects like urban renewal and highways.

He significantly encouraged the addition of another Environmental Impact

Assessment variable which has lasted until now as a key factor in project

decisions. It is also key in the management of interconnected social and natural

environments. This paper is based on research about the inter/relationship of

Native Americans and natural resource managers. Native people struggle to

ensure their EJ issues are considered in EIS and management because these are

different than those which originally were used to define EJ.

 

Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.