Environmental Activism on the Ground

Jonathan Clapperton is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. He specializes in Indigenous history and culture in the North American West, and works as an expert witness and historical consultant for numerous Indigenous communities. Liza Piper is an environmental historian and associate professor of History and Classics at the University of Alberta. She is the author of The Industrial Transformation of Subarctic Canada and editor of Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments.

• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of FiguresIntroductionIn the Shadow of the Green Giants:Environmentalism and Civic EngagementJonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper Process and Possibilities Strategies for Survival:First Nations Encounters with Environmentalism Anna J. Willow Native/Non-Native Alliances:Challenging Fossil Fuel Industry Shipping at Pacific Northwest Ports ZoltÁn Grossman Conserving Contested Ground:Sovereignty-Driven Stewardship by the White Mountain Apache tribe and the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation John R. Welch From Southern Alberta to Northern Brazil:Indigenous Conservation and the Preservation of Cultural Resources Sterling Evans Parks For and By the People:Acknowledging Ordinary People in the Formation, Protection, and Use of State and Provincial Parks Jessica M. DeWitt HistoriesAlternatives:Environmental and Indigenous Activism in the 1970sLiza Piper Marmion Lake Generating Station:Another Northern Scandal? Tobasonakwut Peter KinewEnvironmental Activism as Anti-Conquest:The Nuu-chch-nulth and Environmentalists in the Contact Zone of Clayoquot Sound Jonathan Clapperton Local Economic Independence as Environmentalism:Nova Scotia in the 1970s Mark Leeming "Not an Easy Thing to Implement":The Conservation Council of New Brunswick and Environmental Organization in a Resource-Dependent Province, 1969-1983Mark J. McLaughlinThe Ebb and Flow of Local Environmental Activism:The Society for Pollution and Environmental Control (SPEC), British Columbia Jonathan Clapperton From Social Movement to Environmental Behemoth:How Greenpeace Got Big Frank ZelkoAfterwardLessons and Directions from the Ground UpJonathan Clapperton and Liza Piper BibliographyIndex