Tribes, Land, and the Environment

Ezra Rosser is an Associate Professor at American University Washington College of Law and a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan. His areas of research and teaching include federal Indian law, property law, poverty law, and housing law.

Contents: Introduction, Sarah A. Krakoff and Ezra Rosser; Towards a trust we can trust: the role of the trust doctrine in the management of tribal natural resources, Alex Tallchief Skibine; Part I Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Impacts: Control and accountability: the twin dimensions of tribal sovereignty necessary to achieve environmental justice for Native America, James M. Grijalva; The climate crisis, the renewable energy revolution, and tribal sovereignty, Dean B. Suagee; Application of environmental justice to climate change-related claims brought by native nations, Elizabeth Ann Kronk. Part II Tribal Lands: The promise and perils of renewable energy on tribal lands, Sara C. Bronin; At the margins: border tribes' struggles to protect Reservation lands, waters, and communities, Allison M. Dussias. Part III Tribal Environmental Protection: Co-operating to protect the Shining Big Sea Water and its siblings: consultation with Native peoples in protecting the Great Lakes, Jacqueline Phelan Hand; Tribes as conservation easement holders: is a partial property interest better than none?, Jessica Owley. Part IV Tribal realism and Case Studies: Natural allies: conservationists, Indian tribes, and protecting Native North America, Kirsten Matoy Carlson and Robert T. Coulter; The role of Indigenous custom in environmental governance: lessons from the inter-American human rights system, Ghislain Otis; Index.