Native communities replicated CARE’s strategy after hearing of its incinerator victory

Evidence

It was in this context that CARE beat the Dilkon incinerator and established a link to other, similarly-situated Native communities with their own environmental struggles. When other Native groups began to hear about CARE’s success, CARE received phone calls from around the country requesting help in other environmental struggles on Indian reservations. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 615

Categorization

  • XREF: Builds on ch16 claim that waste firms sold proposals to impoverished Tribes; here the win spreads organizing. — connects to: A national Indigenous environmental network began at one Navajo kitchen table — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 598
  • SHARE: The detail that 200 people from 25 Tribes gathered at Dilkon after one community’s win is a sharp EJ history fact.