Title Defending the Arctic Refuge : a Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice / Finis Dunaway

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021] Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Series Flows, migrations, and exchanges Flows, migrations, and exchanges. Contents On the road -- The last great wilderness -- The sacred place where life begins -- Lenny's epiphany -- Glendon Brunk's epiphany -- Delivering Bosco -- The little white man who never sleeps -- The slide show at the Art Farm -- Science and skulduggery -- I hope people from the south listen -- Rebirth of a nation -- The Arctic Refuge in a broader frame -- Grassroots versus Goliath -- Catastrophe and the coalition of conscience -- Native corporations and Arctic drilling -- A victory for the grassroots -- Gwich'in recruits, Gwich'in lives -- Budget showdown -- Turning spectators into activists -- 9/11 -- Flat, white nothingness? -- How the Refuge survived the W. years -- Building a bigger choir -- The slide show in Old Crow Summary Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this unique ecosystem into an oil field. Defending the Arctic Refuge tells the improbable story of how the people fought back. At the center of the story is the unlikely figure of Lenny Kohm (1939-2014), a former jazz drummer and aspiring photographer who passionately committed himself to Arctic Refuge activism. With the aid of a trusty slide show, Kohm and representatives of the Gwich'in Nation traveled across the United States to mobilize grassroots opposition to oil drilling. From Indigenous villages north of the Arctic Circle to Capitol Hill and many places in between, this book shows how Kohm and Gwich'in leaders and environmental activists helped build a political movement that transformed the debate into a struggle for environmental justice. In its final weeks, the Trump administration fulfilled a long-sought dream of drilling proponents: leasing much of the Arctic Refuge coastal plain for fossil fuel development. Yet the fight to protect this place is certainly not over. Defending the Artic Refuge traces the history of a movement that is alive today--and that will continue to galvanize diverse groups to safeguard this threatened land Notes Print version record SUBJECT Kohm, Lenny, 1939-2014 -- Political activity Subject Environmental justice -- Alaska -- Citizen participation Show-and-tell presentations -- Political aspects Gwich'in Indians -- Political activity Photographers -- Political activity -- United States Environmentalists -- Political activity -- United States SCIENCE / Environmental Science Political participation Government policy Environmentalists -- Political activity SUBJECT Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) -- Government policy -- Citizen participation Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century Subject United States Alaska -- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Alaska Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 1469661128 9781469661124 9781469661117 146966111X

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