Conference Materials

The following lessons contain suggestions for approaching the essays and transcripts generated at the Justice for All conference. Lesson themes include the history and practice of environmental justice, the multiple ways of defining environment or nature, and the unique aspects of race, ethnicity, and environment in the American West. Each lesson makes us of materials available in PDF format on this web site.

Conference Materials

All of the conference proceedings are available here in PDF format. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to access these documents. You can download Acrobat for free by clicking here. You will be taken to the Adobe website, where you must follow the directions to download and install the reader. You may wish to bookmark this page in your browser to facilitate your return.

Table of Contents

1. Title Page and Introduction, by Patricia Nelson Limerick

2. National Parks: Reflecting our Nation's Many Faces, by Robert Stanton

3. From Colonial- to Community-Based Conservation: Environmental Justice and the National Parks of South Africa, by Jacklyn Cock

4. Comments on Grand Canyon National Park, by Victor Masayesva

5. A Family Argument, by T.H. Watkins

6. "People of Color Don't Care About the Environment: Origins of a Destructive Myth, by Luis Torres

7. The Legacy of 1964, by Hubert Farbes

8. The Native American Case: The Shortfall of Justice, by Janine Pease-Pretty on Top

9. Recovering from the Corps of Discovery, by William Yellowtail

10. In the Meadow: A Brilliant Sight, by Shelton Johnson

11. Summation, by James Miller

12. An Interview with Gillian Bowser