Suggested Topics and Readings:

• Science and Environmental justice: Local knowledge, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Science
• Read: [ER] “Agriculture Unbound: Cultivating the Ground
• Between Science Traditions,” in Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca
• Read: Stewart, Ch. 3
• Toxic/Hazardous Waste
• Mining
• Read: Mutz, Ch. 13
• Oak Flat Land Exchange
• Tar Creek
  
• Water: Quantity, Quality, and Rights
• Read: Mutz, Ch. 3; Grijalva, Ch. 3 and Ch. 4
• Subsistence: Hunting, Fishing, Gathering and other Natural Resource Rights
• Film: Oil on Ice
• Fire: Uncharacteristic High Intensity Running Crown Fires, Indigenous Burning and Forest Management Practices
• Read: Stewart, pp. 65-69 and one of the following as assigned:
• “The Eastern Woodlands”
  
• “Prairies and Plains”
  
• “The Mountain West”
  
• Sacred Sites
• Read: Assignments from Seibert
• Film: In the Light of Reverence
• Growth and Development
• “Free” Trade and Immigration

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