Digging Earth: The Politics of the Extractive Industries on Indigenous Lands

This paper functions as an introduction to the panel Digging Earth: The Politics of The Extractive Industries on Indigenous ands. It addresses the historical and colonial background linked to the takeover of indigenous lands in North America, settler colonialism, the role of the Treaties and indigenous resistance. The coal and uranium mining on Diné and Hopi nations, and the resistance from Diné and Hopi grassroots organization to the exploitation of their ancestral lands are highlighted.

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Catherine Bernard

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Publication date: September 2021

Publication date (Print): September 2021

Pages: 115-121

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[0001]SUNY College at Old Westbury

New York, USA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/POM2021.15

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Conference name: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021

Conference acronym: POM 2021

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Berlin, Germany

Conference date: September 14-17, 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: debate and devise concepts and practices that seek to critically question and unravel novel modes of science

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[1] A. Acosta “Extractivism and neoextractivism: two sides of the same curse” (2013) in M. Lang and D. Mokrani (eds.) Beyond Development: Alternative visions from Latin America, Quito: Transnational Institute, Fondacion Rosa Luxemburg.

[2] N. Estes (2019) Our History is the Future, Verso, London, New York.

[3] M. Hirsch (2014) 1871: The End of Indian Treaty-Making, American Indian Magazine. Retrieved from: http://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/1871-end-indian-treaty-making

[4] L.R. Lippard (2014) Undermining, the New Press, New York and London.

[5] A. Moore-Nall (2015) The Legacy of Uranium Development on or Near Indian Reservations and Health Implications Rekindling Public Awareness. Geosciences, 5(1), pp. 15–29.

[6] L. Morales (2016). For the Navajo Nation, Uranium Mining’s deadly Legacy Lingers, NPR. Retrieved from: http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/10/473547227/for-the-navajo-nation-uranium-minings-deadly-legacy-lingers

[7] R. Taylor (2019) 6 Native leaders on what it would look like if the US kept its promises, Vox. Retrieved from: http://www.vox.com/firstperson/2019/9/23/20872713/native-american-indian-treaties

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