QUEERING THE MOVEMENT

While those who are indigenous to Turtle Island have long been active stewards of the land, we may currently be witnessing a wider reclamation of Indigeneity in its practices and politics, and most definitely, in the visibility of Native American environmental activism. Queering this push for enviro...

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Published in:Earth Island journal 2018-10, Vol.33 (3), p.45-46
Main Author: Amor, Bani
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Colonialism
Earth
Environmental activism
Environmental degradation
Environmental justice
Environmental protection
Environmentalism
Gender
Land reclamation
Minority & ethnic groups
Names
Native peoples
Reclamation
Sovereignty
Spirits
Trauma
Violence
Visibility
Women
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Summary:While those who are indigenous to Turtle Island have long been active stewards of the land, we may currently be witnessing a wider reclamation of Indigeneity in its practices and politics, and most definitely, in the visibility of Native American environmental activism. Queering this push for environmental justice are two Spirits--people who are believed to possess both feminine and masculine spirits, and who play sacred roles in Native communities. Two Spirit activism has provably benefited an environmental movement struggling to respond to the acting US administration's multiple attacks on the sovereignty of both land and body--subjects that settler colonialism might deem separate--and to confront its own whiteness and heteronormativity. Here, Amor discusses the Two Spirit resistance to environmental degradation.
ISSN:1041-0406