Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues

by Bruce E. Johansen

From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the industrialized worldʼs encroachment on native lands has brought disastrous environmental harm to indigenous peoples. More than 170 native peoples around the world are facing life-and-death struggles to maintain environments threatened by oil spills, explosions, toxic chemicals, global warming and other pollutants. This unique resource surveys those indigenous peoples and the environmental hazards that threaten their existence, providing a wealth of information not readily available elsewhere. Arranged geographically, each entry focuses on the peoples of a particular country and the environmental issues they face, from the global warming and toxic chemicals threatening the Arctic Inuits, to the logging that is devastating indigenous habitats in Borneo. Also includes information on alcoholism, animals, toxins and breast feeding, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), George W. Bush, cancer, China, climate change, colonization, cyanide, dams, Declaration of the F