Something that strikes me from both Silvermoon LaRose’s lecture and Elizabeth Hoover’s research is the extension and cultural connection of the physical (indigenous) body to the land. In many ways, this connection stems from the need for resources that the land offers up as gifts, particularly food sustenance. Silvermoon noted that through generational storytelling, and…

Readings Elizabeth Hoover, “Environmental Justice, Political Ecology, and the Three Bodies of a Mohawk Community” in The River Is in Us, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Link to open access book.   Scott Frickel and Jonathan Tollefson “When Environmental Inequality Racialized: Historical Evidence from Providence, Rhode Island” in Socius, Vol 8: 1- 14, 2022. Link…