Contents
(2/4/2002)

• Preface
  
  
• Introduction
  
  
• Argentina:
  • Introduction
  • The Kollas' Struggle for Land Tenure
  • The Argentine Mapuche and Oil Contamination
  • The Wichís' Opposition to Hydroelectric Development
  
  
• Australian Aborigines:
  • Uranium Mining and Nuclear Testing
  • Aboriginals Oppose Gold Mining in New South Wales
  
  
• Bangladesh: Gas Well Explosion
  
  
• Belize: The Mopan and Kekchi Oppose Industrial-scale Logging
  
  
• Biodiversity and Indigenous Environmentalism
  
  
• Bolivia: Indigenous Peoples, Logging Concessions,
  Oil Exploration, and Toxic Spills
  
  
• Botswana: End of the Line for the Khwe (Kalahari Bushmen)
  
  
• Brazil:
  • Introduction
  • The Toll of Dam-building on Indigenous Peoples
  • Accelerating Deforestation in the Amazon Valley
  • Chico Mendes and the Indigenous Rubber Workers
  • The Apinaje, Kraho, Xerente, Tapuia, Awe, and Karaja,
    Logging, River Re-routing, and Fish Kills
  • The Apurina, Paurmari, Deni, and Juma Protest Oil-and-gas Pipelines
  • The Guaranis Assert Rights to Their Land
    Amidst a Wave of Suicides
  • The Kaiapo, Greenpeace, and Mahogany Logging
  • The Panara: Road-building, Imported Diseases, and Genocide
  • The Pataxo Take Back Their Land
  • Mercury Poisoning and Amazon Gold Mining
  • The Yanomami and the Gold Rush
  
  
• Burma (Myanmar):
  • Forced Labor in the World's Last Teak Forest
    • Introduction
    • History of Burma's Junta and the Burmese Teak Harvest
    • Testimonies of Torture
    • The Junta Disowns Its Own Policies
    • Oil Corporations and Forced Labor
  
  
• Cambodia:
  • Deforestation Spurs Indigenous Pressure
  • Protecting Resin Trees
  
  
• Cameroon: The Pygmies Lose Their Homes to Industrial-scale Logging
  
  
• Canada:
  • Introduction
  • The Crees and Hydro Quebec's Electric Dreams
  • The Pimicikamak Cree of Manitoba Imperiled by Hydropower
  • Dioxins' Destination:
    The Inuit and Persistent Organic Pollutants
  • The Inuit and Toxic Waste Dumps
  • The Lubicon, Land Rights, and Resource Exploitation
  • Uranium Mining Decimates the Dene
  • The Kanesatake Mohawks Debate Niobrium Mining
  • The Halfway River Nation of British Columbia
    Resists an Oil and Gas Pipeline, and Tourist Development
  • The Taku River Tlingit First Nation of British Columbia
    Resists Zinc, Copper, Gold, and Silver Mining
  • Labrador's Innu and Industrialism's Intrusions
  • Military Test Flights Ruin Innu Hunting
  • The Innu Weigh Hydroelectric Development
    and Aluminum Smelting
  • The Innu Battle a Sulfide Mine
  • Water Pollution Afflicts the Ouje-Bougoumou Cree
  • The Dogrib First Nation Questions Diamond Mining
  • The Ojibway Resist Black Bear Poaching
  
  
• Chad: The Pygmies, and Others, Meet an Oil Pipeline
  
  
• Chile: The Pehuenche, Mapuches,
  • Logging, Dam Building, and Land Rights
  
  
• Climate Change and Indigenous Environmentalism:
  • Introduction
  • The First International Forum
    of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change
  • The Inuit, in the Arctic
  • Small Island Nations: Waiting to Drown
  
  
• Colombia:
  • Introduction
  • The U'wa: Mass Suicide as an Alternative to Oil Exploration
  • The Underside of U.S. Anti-drug Spraying
  • The Emberas' Conflicts with Dam Construction
  • The Tabaco and Coal Strip Mining
  
  
• Congo Basin: Deforestation at "Alarming Rates"
  
  
• Costa Rica: Several Indigenous Peoples Resist Central America's
  Largest Dam, Bauxite Mining, and an Aluminum Smelter
  
  
• Dam Sites and Indigenous Peoples
  
  
• Ecology, Native American Conceptions
  
  
• Ecuador: Several Native Peoples
  • Oppose Oil Drilling in the Amazon Valley
    and an Oil Pipeline Over the Andes
  
  
• Eritrea: The Tigre, Beni Amer, Hidareb, and Kunama Tribes
  Face Deforestation of Their Homelands
  
  
• Fiji: The Namosi, Serua, Nadroga, and Rewa
  Fight a Proposed Copper Mine
  
  
• Forest Stewardship Council
  
  
• French Polynesia:
  • The Te Ao Maohi Moorea Rally a Canoe Blockade
    Against Dredging of a Lagoon
  
  
• Ghana: Indigenous Peoples Suffer Gold-mining Tailings Spills
  
  
• Guam: The Chamorros Face Military PCB Pollution
  
  
• Guatemala:
  • Introduction
  • The Maya Achi Protest Hydroelectric Flooding
  • The Champericos' Wetlands Ruined by Shrimp Farming
  • Oil Exploration in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve
  
  
• Guyana:
  • Introduction
  • The Isseneru Suffer Mercury Poisoning from Gold Mining
  • The Akawaio Nation Seeks a Land Base
    Before it is Logged Away
  
  
• Honduras:
  • Murder Follows Protest of Dam Construction
  • The Spread of Gold-mining Concessions
  
  
• India:
  • Introduction
  • Imported Diseases on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  • Uranium Poisoning in the Jharkand Tribal Belt of Bihar
  • Deaths in Protests of Bauxite Mining
  • Enron, Veldur, and Sky-High Electric Rates from Natural Gas
  • Saying "No" to the Narmada Dam Complex
  
  
• Indigenous Environmentalism and Economic Development
  
  
• Indonesia:
  • Introduction
  • Rapid Deforestation in Indonesia
  • The Penan Obstruct Logging
  • The Sojourn of Bruno Manser
  • Attack of the Sun Bears
  • The Ex-Headhunters' Bed and Breakfast
  • Armed Resistance to Development in East Kalimantan
  • Gold Mining and Water Supplies in East Kalimantan
  • The Dayaks Resist the Industrial Gold Rush
  • Traditional Dayak Gold-ming Practices
  • Submarine Tailings Disposal (STD)
  • Forest Management and Indigenous Peoples on Java
  • The Bataks Shut Down Pulp and Paper Manufacturing
    in North Sumatra
  • Allegations of Corporate Torture in Aceh, Sumatra
  • The Toll of Logging,
    Pearl Harvesting and Tourism on Togean
  
  
• Irian Jaya/Papua New Guinea:
  • Introduction
  • Freeport's Grasberg Mine: Tidal Waves of Waste
  • Dam Development in West Papua
  • The Moi, Logging and Mining in West Papua
  
  
• Kenya:
  • Introduction
  • The Kwale Object to Titanium Mining
  • The Maasai Fight Land Expropriation for Military Testing
  • The Ogiek "Honey Hunters" Forced From the Rift Valley
  
  
• Marianas Islands: Indigenous Peoples and PCB Contamination
  
  
• The Marshall Islands and Nuclear Testing
  
  
• Mexico:
  • Introduction
  • The Maya and Oil Exploitation in Chiapas
  • The Huicholes Live With Pesticides Around the Clock
  • Silver Mining and Lead Poisoning Children
  • The Tepoztlan Golf Course "Water War"
  
  
• Mother Earth, as Ecological Metaphor
  
  
• New Zealand's Maori and the Western Worldview
  
  
• Nicaragua's Mayagna(Sumo) Battle Illegal Logging
  and Catalogue Endangered Species
  
  
• Nigeria: The Ogoni: Oil, Blood, and the Death of a Homeland
  • Repression by the "Kill and Go"
  • Oil Spills and Wastelands
  • The Death of Friday Nwiido
  • The Travail of Ogoniland Continues
  
  
• Noble Savage, "the Ecological Indian"
  (As Ecological Image or Stereotype)
  
  
• Pakistan: The Kafir-Kalashs' Land Sullied by Tourism
  
  
• Panama's Ngobe Bugle Win Land Title While Resisting Mining
  
  
• Peru:
  • Introduction
  • Indigenous Peoples, Gold Mining, and Mercury Poisoning
  • A Lead Smelter Fouls the Air at La Oroya
  • Indigenous Protests of Oil Exploration
  • The Urarina(Kachá), Oil Development,
    Disease Importation, and "Hippie" Tourists in the Peruvian Amazon
  • The Camisea Natural Gas Project
  • Illegal Logging Inundates the Nahua
  • The Aguaruna Take Their Land by Force
  
  
• Philippines:
  • Introduction
  • Copper Mine Tailings Inundate Indigenous Villages
  • Damming the Ibalois' Sacred River
  • Gold Mining Amidst Poverty in Luzon's Cordillera
  • Mindanao's Lumads: Logging, Mining Wastes, and Evictions
  • Marinduque Islanders Cope with Copper-mining Tailings Spills
  • Nickel and Cobalt Mining and Midaro Island's
    Mangyan, Alangan, and Tadyawan Peoples
  
  
• Russia (Siberia):
  • Introduction
  • The Evenk and the Khanty: Oil and Reindeer Don't Mix
  • The Environmental Legacy of Soviet-era Policies
  • The Nenets of the Yamal Peninsula:
    A Flood of Unwanted Natural Gas
  • The Oil Rush on Sakhalin Island
  
  
• The South Pacific:
  • Introduction
  • New Caledonia's Kanaky Nickel Mine
  • The Mataiva, Nauru, and Banaba Islands:
    Sacrificed for Phosphate Mining
  • The Solomon Islands: Indigenous Peoples Relocated for
    Gold Mining and Logging
  
  
• Sri Lanka's "Forest Beings" Face Hydro-power and Logging
  
  
• Suriname: The Maroons of Nieuw Koffiekamp, Gold Mining, and Logging
  
  
• Native American Thanksgiving Cycle: Ecological Perspectives
  
  
• Thailand:
  • Introduction
  • Indigenous Peoples in the Power House
  • The Lahu and Hmong Face an Inundation of "Lowlanders"
  • The Karen and the Toll of Lead Poisoning
  
  
• Tibet:
  • Introduction
  • China's Tibetan Railway
  • A Monk Pays the Price of Protesting Gold Mining
  
  
• Turkey, the Kurds, and Dam Building
  
  
• United States of America:
  • Akwesasne: The Land of the Toxic Turtles
  • Tribal Concerns Regarding the Great Lakes
  • The Penobscots Endure Organochlorine Contamination
  • The Yaquis: Borders Don't Stop Pesticide Contamination
  • The Point Hope Eskimos: An Atomic Harbor
    and a Nuclear Dump as a Neighbor
  • The Gwich'in, the Caribou,
    and Oil in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
  • Don't Eat the Reindeer
  • Bombs Away in the Aleutian Islands
  • Uranium Mining, Havasupai Sacred Sites, and the Grand Canyon
  • Turning Black Mesa to Coal Slurry
  • The Quechans' Golden Future
  • A Village of Tents and Tipis Block a Nuclear Dump
    in California's Ward Valley
  • Florida's Seminoles: A Building Code as Assimilative Tool
  • Coeur d'Alenes Demand Cleanup of Mining Waste in Idaho
  • The High Price of Uranium in Navajo Country
  • The Navajo Medicine Men's Association, Lake Powell,
    and Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
  • Montana's Gros Ventre and Assiniboine,
    Gold Mining, and Cyanide Poisoning
  • The Northern Cheyenne Question Methane Gas Extraction
  • The Environmental Economy of Kitty-Litter Strip Mining
  • The Western Shoshone: "The Most Bombed Nation on Earth."
  • The Isleta Pueblo Tastes Albuquerque's Effluent
  • The Laguna Pueblo and Anaconda's Jackpile Uranium Mine
  • The Zuni, Sacred Waters, and Coal Strip Mining
  • The Oklahoma Cherokee Resist Dumping of Toxic Ash
  • Uranium Tailings Pollute South Dakota's Black Hills
  • Utah's Goshute Welcome Uranium Fuel Storage, for a Price
  • The Makah Test Their Whaling Rights
  • Fishing Rights: The Usual and Accustomed Places
  • Washington State's Yakamas and Hanford's Radioactive Legacy
  • Western Shoshone
    • Yucca Mountain: Nuclear Storage at the Serpent Swimming West
      • The Politics of Nuclear-waste Disposal
  • Wisconsin's Chippewas: Sulfide Mining v. Treaty Rights
  • Native Peoples Line up Against
    Yellowstone National Park's "Buffalo Cull"
  
  
• Venezuela:
  • Introduction
  • The Pemon, Permission, and Power Transmission
  • Venezuela's Waraos Resist Oil Development
  
  
• Yemen's Jahm Pierce Pipelines
  
  
• Zambia: Blaming "the Poor" for Deforestation
  
  
• Zimbabwe and Botswana: An Alliance with Wildlife