As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock Audiobook (Free)

The storyplot of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn in the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism

Through the initial lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, challenges for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an available history of Indigenous resistance to government and commercial incursions on the lands and will be offering new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy.

Throughout 2016, the Standing Rock protest put a national spotlight on Indigenous activists, but it addittionally underscored how little Americans know about the longtime historical tensions between Native peoples and the mainstream environmental motion. Eventually, she argues, modern environmentalists must turn to the history of Indigenous resistance for intelligence and inspiration inside our common fight for a just and sustainable future.