Environmental Clashes on Native American Land
Subtitle: Framing Environmental and Scientific Disputes
Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication Ser; Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication Ser
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Cham
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9783030341060
Description: This book explores how the media frame environmental and scientific disputes faced by American Indian communities. Most people will never know what it is like to live on an Indian reservation in North America, or what it means to identify as an American Indian. However, when conflicts embroil Indigenous folk, as shown by the protests over a crude oil pipeline in 2016 and 2017, camera crews and reporters descend on "the rez" to cover the event. The focus of the book is how stories frame clashes in Indian Country surrounding environmental and scientific disputes, such as the Dakota Access Pipeline construction, and the discovery of an ancient skeleton in Washington. The narratives told over social media and news programs often fail to capture the issues of key importance to Native Americans, such as sovereignty: the right to self- governance. The book offers insight into how the history of Indian-settler relations sets the stage for modern clashes, and examines American Indian knowledge systems, and how they take a back seat to mainstream approaches to science in discourse.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Acknowledgments; title: Contents; title: List of Figures; title: Chapter 1: Setting the Stage; title: Environmental Communication; title: The Public Sphere and Social Discourse; title: Mass Media, Interpretive Packages and Framing; title: Examining Environmental Messages in Discourse; title: Synopsis; title: Chapter 2: The Arc of the Book; title: Hegemony; title: Examining Power; title: Metaphysics: Indigenous Ontology and Epistemology; title: Morality, Respect and Resilience; title: What Is Meant by Respect?; title: Synopsis; title: Chapter 3: Buckshot for Brains: Cultivating the American Indian Mind; title: Progress in the 1800s; title: Philadelphia: A Hub for Science and Pseudoscience; title: The Skull as a Virtual Personality Map; title: Phrenological Characteristics of Humans; title: The Appeal of Sciencing; title: The Quantification of Race; title: How Phrenology Cultivated the Native American Mind; title: Synopsis; title: Chapter 4: Black Hawk's Skull; title: Final; title: Black Hawk's Skull; title: Phrenological Characteristics of Black Hawk: Combative and Animal Qualities; title: Skull as Synecdoche; title: Black Hawk's Skull Stolen; title: Synopsis; title: Chapter 5: The Kennewick Man Story; title: Introduction; title: The Skeleton's Doppelgänger; title: DNA Studies Cement Authenticity; title: Synopsis; title: Chapter 6: Discourse and Resistance in the Kennewick Man Story; title: Introduction; title: The Current Study; title: The Investigation; title: The Findings; title: Conflict Frame; title: Authority Frame; title: Ideological Frames; title: Native American Knowledges, Traditions and Beliefs; title: Knowledge and Tradition Frame; title: Beliefs Frame; title: Scientific Empiricism; title: Evidence Frame; title: Methods Frame; title: Personification of Science; title: Race Frame; title: Intertextuality Frame; title: Modern Actor Portrays Kennewick Man; title: Skeleton as Treasure and Antiquity; title: Pop Culture and Bitter History; title: The Noble Savage; title: Synopsis; title: Chapter 7: How Sioux-Settler Relations Underscore the Dakota Access Pipeline; title: The Black Snake; title: Progress and Morality; title: Traversing the Holy Road; title: Gold Discovered; title: The Battle at Greasy Grass; title: Crazy Horse Murdered; title: Massacre at Wounded Knee; title: Synopsis; title: Chapter 8: We Came to Fight a Black Snake; title: Assessing the News Coverage; title: Paradigm Shift; title: Social Media Shift the Focus; title: Us Versus Them; title: Tribes Pay the Price for America's Prosperity; title: Synopsis; title: Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks; title: Ideology in Play; title: Bone Collecting Casts a Racial Hue; title: Knowledge Systems; title: Resistance Meets Resilience; title: Synopsis; title: Index