DECOLONIZING ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
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Colonial Practices of Schools
American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many (Part 1) by Charla Bear
American Indian School a Far Cry from the Past (Part 2) by Charla Bear
The Horrifying Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools Hasn’t Ended – Here’s What You Need to Know by Taté Walker
Ethiopia was colonised by Mastewal Taddese Terefe
Education as a Colonial Tool by Arianne Magat
Your Pedagogy Might be More Aligned with Colonialism than You Realize by Jamila Lyiscott
Colonial Environmental History
"The Colonial Origins of Conservation: The Disturbing History Behind US National Parks" by Stephen Corry
'“Only to the white man was nature a wilderness … to us it was tame. Earth was bountiful.” The parks were and are supposed to preserve their “wilderness,” but they’ve never been very successful.'
"Wildlife Conservation and Settler Colonialism in the North American West" by Paul Berne Burrow
The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature by William Cronon
Echoes of Oak Flat: 4 Pick Sloan Dams That Submerged Native Lands by Christina Rose
When conservation provides a cover for anti-Indigenous sentiments by Trihtan Ahtone
We Need to Talk About the Militarization of Conservation by Rosaleen Duffy
How Money Changes Climate Debate by Daniel Lippman
Waste Supremacy by Joshua Luna
"So when we talk about climate change, it’s not enough to call it a crisis—it's a climate apartheid. We’re not all suffering equally & that's by design. Southeast Asia & other countries who are majority Brown or Black are being hit first & worst thanks to white/waste supremacy."
"We're expected to clean up privileged people's trash because we are seen as trash."
Indigenous Land Defenders
Indigenous Activists are Being Assassinated in Chile and Argentina by Erik Thurman
After Standing Rock, protesting pipelines can get you a decade in prison and $100K in fines by Naveena Sadasivam
Evicted and Abandoned, a HuffPost investigative series on the World Bank’s complicitness in land displacement
Disturbing Report Shows How Many Environmental Activists Are Killed Each Week by Amanda Schupak
A New Report Sheds Light on the Plot to Murder Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres by Lauren Carasik
Colonial Practices in Environmentalism
US is hotbed of climate change denial, major global survey finds by Oliver Milman and Fiona Harvey
The Convenient Disappearance of Climate Change Denial in China by Geoff Dembicki
From Fossil Fuels to Global Warming Denial, Koch Brothers May Be Biggest Force Behind U.S. Inaction by Democracy Now!
4 Ways Mainstream Animal Rights Movements Are Oppressive by Mahealani Joy
Vegan Activism and Anti-Indigeneity: Violating Indigenous Food Sovereignty by Kima Nieves
Native Foods and the Colonial Gaze by Michael Wise
One of the most repeated facts about Haiti is a lie by M.R. O'Connor
Disrupting Settler Colonialism
Tribes Redraw Land Boundaries—With GPS and a Small Fleet of Drones by Tristan Ahtone
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney
"Yosemite Finally Reckons with Its Discriminatory Past" by Jake Bullinger
"Today in Native History: Forest Land Returned to Yakama Nation" by Alysa Landr
Amazon tribe wins first victory against oil companies by AFP
Farmer Returns 700 Acres of California Coast to Native American Tribe by Good News Networ
UN Report Says Indigenous Sovereignty Could Save the Planet by Mike Ludwig
Resources for Education Reform
Here Are 21 Free Resources for Teaching Social Justice in the Classroom
Decolonizing your syllabus? You might have missed some steps by Max Liboiron
Examples of Decolonizing Environmental Education
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Indigenous Knowledge and Wellness Systems by Himalayan Consensus Summit
When Scientists “Discover” What Indigenous People Have Known For Centuries by George Nicholas
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpsonv