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"Investigates the complexities of urban American Indian life in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Examines Indigenous experiences in the city, focusing on identity formation, education, welfare, health care, community organizations, and community efforts to counter colonization"--Provided by publisher

Powerful parallels: deep ecology and the writings of Vine Deloria Jr. -- Environmental injustice, land, and American Indian religious freedom -- Environmental injustices and state-corporate crime on Navajo and Hopi lands -- Environmental racism: contaminated water in indigenous and minority communities -- Two cases of navigating legal complexity: environmental justice in Barrow and Tar Creek -- The water-energy nexus and environmental justice: the missing link between water rights and energy production on tribal lands -- Not in our lands: a Canadian comparative case study of indigenous resistance strategies to natural resource development in British Columbia and the Arctic -- Urban Native American women as environmental justice leaders.

Indigenous peoples have been cast as representing modernity?s fading premodern0Other. This volume starts from the opposite assumption, namely that0contemporary indigenous peoples are specifically modern societies, profoundly0shaped by their specific ways of dealing with, making use of and transforming the0contexts imposed by nation-states, colonial systems and globalization. They do that0from a position alternative to that of the modern West. The book aims to0understand these processes and the resulting forms of indigenous modernities in0Lowland South America through ethnographic case studies. It argues that there is0more about indigenous modernities than the simple assertion that indigenous0peoples are now modern too.0Indigenous groups are modern in multiple, complex and alternative ways. As the0contributions show this holds true for current forms of shamanism and indigenous0Christian churches, new meanings of traditional clothing, as well as indigenous0cosmologies that confront western concepts, technology and welfare programs.0The notion of indigenous modernities refers to a space beyond old modernist0dichotomies. The paradox, like the disturbing Otherness it brings to our attention,0is the result of a relation in which assumptions we take ontologically for granted0are confronted by other realities. Looking at the creative ways indigenous peoples?0practices subvert such assumptions may result in substantial irritation and is a0starting point for a renewed reflection on classical assumptions about modernities0and indigenous ways of both being modern and exceeding modernity in the face of0long-standing power inequalities and the imposition of logics of Western ontology

Draws upon examples from Australia, Canada, & New Zealand to explore the nature of indigenous nationalism. A theoretical understanding of indigenous nationalism is developed in relation to three dimensions: democratic self determination; internal democracy (the right to choose how & by whom one will be governed); & shared rule in state institutions. Distinctions are made between normative & empirical-institutional dimensions of indigenous nationalism, noting that the normative dimension explains why the indigenous claim to self-determination deserves respect & how it differs from claims of other minorities. Attention is called to the very different empirical characteristics & circumstance of indigenous communities. An examination of the pragmatic political implications of the normative framework of indigenous nationalism considers the kinds of communities that will exercise the right to self-determination & the range of potentially viable options for institutional design. These understandings of indigenous nationalism serve to alleviate charges of empirical inaccuracy & irrelevance while simultaneously sustaining the insight needed for the negotiation of just & lasting indigenous-state relations. 80 References. n. Lindroth