Caretakers versus Exploiters: Impacting Biodiversity in the Age of Humans

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.05.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objective
  4. Content Background 
  5. Classroom Resources
  6. Bibliography
  7. End Notes
  8. Appendix

Ecological Effects of Strip Mining Coal on the Black Mesa Mine

Jolene Rose Smith

Published September 2020

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

1970’s coal offers America Energy. Coal Ago, 100 Anniversary. August 2012. www.coalage.com

Atwood, Genevieve. The Strip-Mining of Western Coal. Scientific American, Vol. 233, No 6. Dec. 1975.

Begay, Robert. Doo Dilzin Da: “Abuse of the Natural World” Author(s): American Indian  Quarterly, winter, 2001, Vol. 25, No. 1 (winter, 2001), pp. 21- 27 Published by University of Nebraska Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.com/stable/1186002

Bruchac, Joseph, and Caduto, Michael J. Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children. Fulcrum, Inc. Golden Colorado. 1989.

Native American stories about Mother Earth teachers can use for environmental activities for students.

Cate, Karl; Eaton, Pam; Feaster, Seth. Peabody, in Kayenta Exit, Is Abandoning Native Workforce Ahead of Reclamation Work. Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis. August 2019. IEEFA.org

Elmore, Francis H. Ethnobotany of the Navajo. The University of New Mexico Press, 1944.

Additional vegetation teachers can add to the medicinal plants.

Ghioto, Gary. The pipeline faces fines for spills. Daily Sun News. August 7, 2002, https://azdailysun.com/pipeline-faces-fines-for-spills/article_65bf9770-e3ae-592b-b379-f3ae1f97f12e.html

Higgins, Daniel B. The Black Mesa Case Study: A Post audit and Pathology of Coal-Energy Groundwater Exploitation in the Hopi and Dine Lands, 1968-2008. The University of Arizona. 2010.

The case study is a piece of depth information about what happens when Peabody Coal Company established its excavation of coal from the Black Mesa mines.

Kempf, J; Leonhart, L; Fogel, M; Duckstein, L. Water Quality of Runoff from Surface Mined Land in Northern Arizona, Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona in the Southwest, 1978.

Lewis, David R. Native American, and the environment: a survey of twentieth-century issues. The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 19, Issue 3), University of Nebraska Press. Summer of 1995.

Marie, Julianah. Environmental Justice and Natural Resource Extraction: Examining Mining Operations on Native American Lands. Published by ProQuest, July 2015

Matthews, Mark. On Black Mesa, the native makes a comeback. High Country News, May 12, 2003.

Needham, Andrew. Power Lines, Phoenix, and the Making of the Modern Southwest, Princeton University Press. 2014

Nies, Judith. The Black Mesa Syndrome: Indian Lands, Black Gold 1998. http://arts.envirolink.org/arts_and_activism/JudithNies.html

Powelson, David K. Water harvesting on arid coal mine soil for vegetable and fruit production. The University of Arizona, University Microfilms International, 1982.

Radford, Jeff. Strip-mining Arid Navajo Lands in the US: Threats to Health and Heritage. 1982 https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/biblio/5144348

Schoepfle, Mark; Burton, Michael; and Begishe, Kenneth. Navajo Attitudes towards Development and Change: A Unified Ethnographic and Survey Approach to an Understanding of Their Future. American Anthropologist, Dec. 1984, Vol 86, No. 4, pp 885-904

Thames, J. L.; Crompton, E. J. Reclamation Studies on Black Mesa. Progressive Agriculture in Arizona. College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ). http://hdl.handle.net/10150/300521

Thompson, Jonathan. The west’s coal giant is going down. High Country News. March 27, 2019. www.hcn.org

Udal, Morris K. Full Strip Mining Handbook 08-11-09. January 1990. http://www.citizensagainstlongwallmining.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Full_Strip_Mining_Handbook_08_11_09-1.pdf 15-16.

The teacher introduces the basics of strip mines in the eastern and western United States.

Wayman Leland C and Harris, Stuart K. Navajo Indian Medical Ethnobotany. The University of New Mexico Bulletin, University of New Mexico Press. 1941

World Population Review, 2020. https://worldpopulationreview.com/

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