A national Indigenous environmental network began at one Navajo kitchen table

Evidence

The Indigenous Environmental Network, an international coalition of more than forty grassroots Indian environmental justice groups based in Bemidji, Minnesota, began in a humble spot: Lori Goodman’s kitchen table in Dilkon, a small, isolated Navajo town of 285 people in northeast Arizona. It was around that table that Goodman and other activists first strategized on how to beat a toxic waste incinerator proposed for their community—a struggle that would lead them to initiate the broad-based effort focused on Native American environmental issues that evolved into the network. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 598

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Native communities replicated CARE’s strategy after hearing of its incinerator victory — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 615; Consensus governance across diverse Tribes held together by a shared spiritual foundation — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 627