"Put It Near the Indians": Indigenous Perspectives on Pulp Mill Contaminants in Their Traditional Territories (Pictou Landing First Nation, Canada) | Zendy

Heather Castleden | Zendy; Ella Bennett | Zendy; Pictou Landing Native Women Group | Zendy; Diana Lewis | Zendy; Debbie Martin | Zendy

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"Put It Near the Indians": Indigenous Perspectives on Pulp Mill Contaminants in Their Traditional Territories (Pictou Landing First Nation, Canada)

Author(s) -

Heather Castleden,

Ella Bennett,

Pictou Landing Native Women Group,

Diana Lewis,

Debbie Martin

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

progress in community health partnerships

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.359

H-Index - 24

eISSN - 1557-055X

pISSN - 1557-0541

DOI - 10.1353/cpr.2017.0004

Subject(s) - indigenous , context (archaeology) , narrative , general partnership , participatory action research , disengagement theory , community based participatory research , narrative inquiry , citizen journalism , livelihood , sociology , geography , political science , anthropology , archaeology , gerontology , medicine , ecology , art , biology , literature , law , agriculture

Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), a small Mi'kmaw community on the Canadian east coast, has had a relationship with a tidal estuary known as A'se'k for millennia. In the 1960s, it became the site of effluent disposal from a nearby pulp mill. Almost immediately, health concerns regularly and consistently reverberated throughout the community.

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