Environmental Clashes on Native American Land

Cynthia-Lou Coleman is Professor of Communication at Portland State University, USA. Coleman received a Fulbright-Canada Jarislowsky Foundation Visiting Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies and has served as a fellow with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Her work explores how discourse in the media frames conflict in Native American communities.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Buckshot for Brains: Cultivation of the American Indian Mind.- 3. Hunting for Trophies and the Underbelly of Race.- 4. The Underpinnings of Discourse.- 5. We Came to Fight a Black Snake.- 6. How resistance crystallized to resilience in the Kennewick Man controversy.- 7. Concluding Remarks.