Community members involved with Red Thunder, Inc were pivotal in bringing awareness to the corporate and governmental alliances between the U.S. and Canada and their abuses towards public lands held in trust by the United States. Canada owned approximately 75% of mining companies worldwide, which they managed with a hit and run reputation.
The Struggle Continues: The ongoing fight to reform the 1872 Mining Law
What makes a mountain, hill or prairie a ‘sacred’ place for Native Americans?
For several months Native American protesters and others have been opposing the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The plans for construction pass through sacred land for the Native American tribe, Standing Rock Sioux.
Why is water sacred to Native Americans?
The Lakota phrase “Mní wičhóni,” or “Water is life,” has become a new national protest anthem.
Environmental History and Native American Activism
Environmental history is the study of how humans have changed the environment over time and, conversely, how the environment has altered society. As an academic field, it emerged out of the environmentalism movements of the 1960s and 1970s, when books like Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring forced Americans to rethink their interactions with the natural world.
