Native Americans cannot relocate away from environmental hazards as other citizens can

Evidence

Legally, Native Americans have a different relationship with the land as well. They are the only group of U.S. citizens who have prescribed areas to live on, in the form of reservations, pueblos, and rancherias. Because of their historical, spiritual, and legal ties to the land, Native Americans do not have the same mobility that others facing environmental hazards might have. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 613 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

By the time Saro-Wiwa was executed, the Nigerian military and Mobile Police force had killed 2,000 Ogoni through direct murder and the burning of villages. Ogoni air had been fouled by the flaring of natural gas, their croplands scarred by oil spills, their drinking and fishing waters poisoned. Although Shell was driven out of Ogoniland in 1993, it simply moved on to other parts of Nigeria’s once lush delta of death. Meanwhile, the Shell legacy continues to seep into the environment and bodies of the local farming community that, unlike the international corporation, has nowhere else to go. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 302 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

We have always been here. We do not care for any other place…. We have always lived here. We would rather die here. Our fathers did. We cannot leave them. Our children were born here—how can we go away? If you give us the best place in the world, it is not so good as this…. This is our home…. We cannot live anywhere else. We were born here and our fathers are buried here…. We want this place and no other. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 689 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Legally confined Tribes cannot relocate away from environmental hazards — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 613; Place-based kinship duties anchor indigenous refusal to relocate — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 689; Corporations can relocate while pollution-bearing communities cannot — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 302 (+1 more)

Related

• Legally confined Tribes cannot relocate away from environmental hazards (similarity 0.91)
• Corporations can relocate while pollution-bearing communities cannot (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Legally confined Tribes cannot relocate away from environmental hazards #corroborates (0.98) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 613
• Corporations can relocate while pollution-bearing communities cannot #corroborates (0.95) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 302
• Place-based kinship duties anchor indigenous refusal to relocate #qualifies (0.75) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 689
• American settlement was a history of dispossessing native peoples #expands (0.72) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 273