Bibliography
Abreu, Mauricio A. “European Conquest, Indian Subjection and the Conflicts of Colonization: Brazil in the Early Modern Era.” GeoJournal 60, no. 4 (2004): 365–73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41147902.
Abreu writes about the early economic relationship between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in present day Brazil. This commentary is useful when comparing the issues of the past to contemporary deforestation issues.
Bullard, Robert D. and Johnson Glenn S. “Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making.” Journal of Social Issues 56, no. 3 (2000): 555-578.
This source is useful for helping students understand what environmental justice is, and by extension what environmental injustice would look like. This will be useful when students are working on the research for their final projects.
Conceicao, Katyanne V. et al. “Government Policies Endanger the Indigenous Peoples of the Brazilian Amazon.” Elsevier Land Use Policy (2021): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.105663.
This source contains information about relatively recent changes in Brazilian environmental policies that make it difficult for indigenous people to hold onto their land.
Danilo Urzedo & Pratichi Chatterjee (2021) The Colonial Reproduction of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Violence Against Indigenous Peoples for Land Development, Journal of Genocide Research, 23:2, 302-324, DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2021.1905758
Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser (2016) - "Trust". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/trust' [Online Resource]
The data and graphs contained on this website will provide information that students can evaluate and analyze when working throughout the unit. Specifically used in this unit is information about trust levels and the ways in which societal conditions have improved over past decades.
Estimated indigenous populations of the Americas at the time of European contact, beginning in 1492. Statista. 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1171896/pre-colonization-population-americas/#:~:text=Prior%20to%20the%20arrival%20of,was%20around%20sixty%20million%20people.
The Statista website contains information about estimated indigenous population numbers prior to European contact in 1492.
Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon. New York, NY: Crown Books for Young Readers, 2021.
This work includes the examples of how the natives oil wealth was managed by the white people and is used as the source material in classroom activity number two.
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sioux-treaty#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20government%20set,a%20treaty%20with%20the%20Sioux.
“Indigenous People of Brazil.” Atlas of Humanity: Exploring the Cultural Diversity. Atlas of Humanity. Accessed 7/14/2023. https://www.atlasofhumanity.org/indios
This website provides data about the current indigenous population numbers in present day Brazil.
LeGro, Tom. “Why the Sioux are Refusing $1.3Billion.” PBS News Hour. August 24, 2011. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/north_america-july-dec11-blackhills_08-23
Information about why the Sioux nation have refused to take the money awarded them in their victorious court case.
Max Roser, Hannah Ritchie and Bernadeta Dadonaite (2013) - "Child and Infant Mortality". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality' [Online Resource]
The data and graphs contained on this website will provide information that students can evaluate and analyze when working throughout the unit. Specifically used in this unit is information about trust levels and the ways in which societal conditions have improved over past decades.
Mohai, Paul, & Pellow, David N & Roberts, J. Timmons. “Environmental Justice.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources (2009): 405-430. DOI 10.1146/annurev-environ-082508-094348.
Contains useful definitions of environmental justice and racism that will help students understand what falls into these categories and what does not.
Triesman, Rachel. “How loss of Historical Lands Makes Native Americans More Vulnerable to Climate Change.” NPR. November. 2, 2021. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051146572/forced-relocation-native-american-tribes-vulnerable-climate-change-risks.
This article makes a connection between the historical and cumulative loss of land that indigenous people suffered and current day vulnerability to the negative effects of climate change.
van Solinge, Tim B. “Deforestation Crimes and Conflicts in the Amazon. Springer Science+Business Media (2010): 263-276. DOI 10.1007/s10612-010-9120-x.
Solinge writes about the current state of indigenous land holdings in Brazil and comments on the ways that land is still being taken from them even though legal protections exist that should provide protection from land theft and deforestation.
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