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Environmental Clashes on Native American Land

Framing Environmental and Scientific Disputes

  • Examines how the media frame scientific and environmental conflicts faced by American Indian communities
  • Explores disputes that challenge scientific and cultural ways-of-knowing
  • Investigates how history, ideology, and authority describe settler-Indigenous clashes

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Setting the Stage

    • Cynthia-Lou Coleman
    Pages 1-12
  3. The Arc of the Book

    • Cynthia-Lou Coleman
    Pages 13-26
  4. Black Hawk’s Skull

    • Cynthia-Lou Coleman
    Pages 45-58
  5. The Kennewick Man Story

    • Cynthia-Lou Coleman
    Pages 59-68
  6. Discourse and Resistance in the Kennewick Man Story

    • Cynthia-Lou Coleman
    Pages 69-101
  7. We Came to Fight a Black Snake

    • Cynthia-Lou Coleman
    Pages 123-139
  8. Concluding Remarks

    • Cynthia-Lou Coleman
    Pages 141-152
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 153-160

About this book

This book explores how the media frame environmental and scientific disputes faced by American Indian communities. Most people will never know what it is like to live on an Indian reservation in North America, or what it means to identify as an American Indian. However, when conflicts embroil Indigenous folk, as shown by the protests over a crude oil pipeline in 2016 and 2017, camera crews and reporters descend on “the rez” to cover the event. The focus of the book is how stories frame clashes in Indian Country surrounding environmental and scientific disputes, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline construction, and the discovery of an ancient skeleton in Washington. The narratives told over social media and news programs often fail to capture the issues of key importance to Native Americans, such as sovereignty: the right to self- governance. The book offers insight into how the history of Indian-settler relations sets the stage for modern clashes, and examines American Indian knowledgesystems, and how they take a back seat to mainstream approaches to science in discourse.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Communication, Portland State University, Portland, USA

    Cynthia-Lou Coleman

About the author

Cynthia-Lou Coleman is Professor of Communication at Portland State University, USA. Coleman received a Fulbright-Canada Jarislowsky Foundation Visiting Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies and has served as a fellow with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Her work explores how discourse in the media frames conflict in Native American communities.

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eBook USD 54.99
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 69.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 69.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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