Native American Environmentalism by Joy Porter - 9780803248359

Native American EnvironmentalismLand, Spirit, and the Idea of Wilderness\nAuthor(s): Joy Porter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: Bison Books\nISBN-13: 9780803248359, 978-0803248359\nSynopsis\nIn Native American Environmentalism the history of indigenous peoples in North America is brought into dialogue with key environmental terms such as \""wilderness\"" and \""nature.\"" The conflict between Christian environmentalist thinking and indigenous views, a conflict intimately linked to the current environmental crisis in the United States, is explored through an analysis of parks and wilderness areas, gardens and gardening, and indigenous approaches to land as expressed in contemporary art, novels, and historical writing. \nCountering the inclination to associate indigenous peoples with \""wilderness\"" or to conflate everything \""Indian\"" with a vague sense of the ecological, Joy Porter shows how Indian communities were forced to migrate to .