Clean Water and Tribal Rights

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Sigrid Peterson

The ongoing resistance and civil disobedience of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their allies in opposition to the $3.8B Dakota Access Pipeline reminds us of multiple longstanding historical, cultural, economic and political debates. These debates sit at the intersection of multiple issues: Native American land rights, the right to clean water, extraction industry, fossil fuels, grassroots organizing, everyday acts of resistance, the cultural and political-economic tension between land tenure and land improvements, spiritual relationships to Mother Earth among many others.

The library has an ongoing book display of a small subset of the resources in our collection that help us think through this complex, urgent and intertwined array of issues. Here is a sampling:

	All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life		The Human Right to Water: legal and policy dimensions
	Defending mother earth: Native American perspectives on environmental justice		Water Consciousness: how we all have to change to protect our most critical resource

To learn more, send a message to askwater [at] aqua.wisc.edu. We can send you a full list of our resources.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]