{"id":1834,"date":"2021-04-28T19:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/zoltan\/?page_id=1834"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:43:29","slug":"zoltanwritings2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/zoltan\/zoltanwritings2\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles: Indigenous, environmental, U.S. racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Books:\u00a0 Publications, chapters, reviews<\/a>
\nSelected Articles: Indigenous, environmental, U.S. racism<\/a>
\nSelected Articles: Peace, antiwar, global<\/a><\/h4>\n

2026\u00a0 \u00a010 Reasons Why ICE is Harassing Native Americans<\/a>, on ZNet, Counterpunch, Countercurrents, Peace & Planet News. Podcast interview<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

2025\u00a0 A Brief History of U.S. Military Interventions Within the United States<\/a>, on ZNet, Counterpunch, Janata Weekly.<\/em><\/p>\n

2025 When Disasters Create Unlikely Alliances: From COVID to Climate Change, Communities Are Bridging Differences to Save Themselves<\/a>, in Z\u00f3calo Public Square, Bangkok Post. Translations: <\/em>Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n

2025\u00a0\u00a0 Tribal Collaborations in Developing Place-Based Pedagogies for Public-Facing Student Projects <\/a>. The Professional Geographer.<\/em><\/p>\n

2024\u00a0\u00a0 Lessons of Kristallnacht, \u201cCivil War,\u201d and Mass Deportation<\/a>, on Counterpunch, Z. <\/em>Podcast interview<\/a>. Radio interview<\/a>. Translations: <\/em>German<\/a>, Farsi<\/a><\/p>\n

2024\u00a0\u00a0 The importance of decolonizing place names<\/a>. Puyallup Tribal News.<\/em><\/p>\n

2024\u00a0 Walter Bresette recognized for protecting fish, building bridges<\/a>, with Debra McNutt (Capital Times<\/em>, Madison WI)<\/p>\n

2021 \u00a0The Resilience Doctrine: A Primer on Disaster Collectivism in the Climate and Pandemic Crises <\/a>(Counterpunch<\/em>, Feb. 2021).
\nPart 1: An Introduction to Disaster Resilience<\/a>
\nPart 2: How Disasters Can Encourage Social Change<\/a>
\nPart 3: Indigenous Nations Understand Disaster Resilience<\/a>
\nPart 4: Mutual Aid in the Pandemic and Beyond<\/a>
\nPDF of combined parts<\/a><\/p>\n

2021 Denial of American Fascism Has Cost Us Dearly<\/a>, on Common Dreams <\/em><\/p>\n

2020 Why Far-Right Paramilitaries are Not Just \u201cVigilantes,”<\/a> on Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Z. Translations: <\/em>French<\/a>, <\/em>Portuguese<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

2020 Olympia City Council comments<\/a> on police collusion with far-right militias.<\/p>\n

2020 \u00a010 Reasons Why Defunding Police Should Lead to Defunding War<\/a>, with Medea Benjamin, on Salon, Common Dreams, Code Pink, Pressenza, Consortium News, Nation of Change, Dissident Voice, Peace Worker, World Beyond War, Intrepid Report. Translation: <\/em>Chinese<\/a><\/p>\n

2020 Deploying Federal Troops in a War at Home Would Make a Bad Situation Worse: A Partial History of Military Interventions in the U.S.<\/a>, on Counterpunch, Z<\/em><\/p>\n

2020\u00a0 Washing Our Hands of Trump and Powerlessness<\/a> (about coronavirus pandemic), on Common Dreams, Z, Counterpunch. Translation: <\/em>Italian<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

2020 Geographer’s Statement<\/a> on the Defacing<\/a> of the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural<\/a> (Olympia WA)<\/p>\n

2019\u00a0 Populist alliances of ‘cowboys and Indians’ are protecting rural lands<\/a>, on The Conversation,<\/em> reposted on AP, UPI, Raw Story, Intercontinental Cry, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Rapid City Journal, Houston Chronicle, and other publications. \u00a0 Translations: <\/em>Spanish,\u00a0<\/a>Turkish<\/a><\/p>\n

2018\u00a0 Trump Following Hungarian Model in Demonizing Refugees and Jews<\/a>, on Counterpunch<\/em>. Translation<\/em>: Italian<\/a><\/p>\n

2018\u00a0 Fascism Denial Ignores Some Inconvenient Truths,<\/a> on Z, Counterpunch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2017\u00a0 Olympia fracking train blockade hits again<\/a>, on\u00a0Z, Counterpunch. <\/em>
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

2017\u00a0 Another Side of The Evergreen State College Story<\/a>, with Anne Fischel & Lin Nelson, on\u00a0Huffington Post <\/em>and The Olympian<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Report<\/a> on 6\/15 far-right rally.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

2017\u00a0 Fusing Identity and Class Politics in “Trumpland,<\/a>” on CommonDreams, Counterpunch, Z, Portside<\/em><\/p>\n

2016 Fossil Fuel Connections<\/a> website by students in Resource Rebels<\/a> class, The Evergreen State College.<\/p>\n

2016\u00a0 Public Servants or Corporate Security?: An Open Letter to Law Enforcement and National Guard in North Dakota<\/a>, with Winona LaDuke & Col. Ann Wright (Ret.), on Indian Country Today, Indianz.com, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Z, <\/em>etc.<\/p>\n

2016\u00a0 Where are the Cowboys in the Standing Rock standoff?<\/a>, <\/em>on Counterpunch, Z, Indianz.com<\/em><\/p>\n

2016\u00a0 To Get to You, He Must Go Through Us<\/a> (on Trump), Indian Country Today <\/em>op-ed, Indianz.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

2016\u00a0 Quinault Nation Builds Bridge to Stop Grays Harbor Oil Terminal<\/a>, in Works in Progress<\/em><\/p>\n

2014 The Cowboy Indian Alliance Rises to Protect Our Common Land and Water<\/a>, on Common Dreams, Indianz, Native News Today, Z, Counterpunch, Portside<\/em> (Interview<\/a> by Winona LaDuke)<\/p>\n

2014 “Decolonizing Landscapes: Unlikely Alliances Grow Resilience at the Grassroots<\/a>,” in Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences: in Diversifying our Methods (WIS2DOM) Workshop Report to National Science Foundation (NSF), pp. 52-55.<\/p>\n

2013 Unlikely Alliances: Idle No More and Building Bridges Through Native Sovereignty<\/a>, on Z, Counterpunch, Unsettling America, Portside.<\/em><\/p>\n

2013 Native Resilience and Interethnic Cooperation: How Natives are adapting to climate change, and helping their non-Native neighbors follow suit<\/a> [interview]. Read the Dirt.<\/em><\/p>\n

2012 The Achilles Heel of the Fossil Fuels Monster\u00a0<\/a>in Works in Progress, South Sound Green Pages. <\/em>Map of Fossil Fuel Ports<\/a>. Interview:<\/em> Black Sheep podcast<\/a> (7\/29\/13). Port of Olympia ties to oil fracking<\/a>, Op-ed in The Olympian<\/em> (11\/23).<\/span><\/p>\n

2013 Remembering the Crandon Mine Revolt: How Native and white rural communities defended a common home in Forest County, Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n

2012 No Longer the Miner’s Canary: Indigenous Nations’ Responses to Climate Change<\/a>, on Terrain.org<\/em><\/p>\n

2012 “Guidelines for Working with Native Communities<\/a>,” used for Evergreen interns for Tribal Canoe Journey<\/a> preparations<\/p>\n

2010 Declaration of Key Questions about Research Ethics with Indigenous Communities<\/a>. Co-authored with the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group<\/a> of the Association of American Geographers (AAG).<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0 The Native Renaissance of Washington’s Tribal Nations,<\/a> Association of American Geographers (AAG) Newsletter<\/i> (Nov.)<\/p>\n

2008 “Indigenous Nations Responses to Climate Change”<\/a> article in American Indian Culture and Research Journal <\/a><\/i>(AICRJ) Vol. 32, No. 3.<\/p>\n

2005 “Unlikely Alliances: Treaty Conflicts and Environmental Cooperation Between Native American and Rural White Communities,<\/a>” article in\u00a0American Indian Culture and Research Journal<\/a><\/i> (AICRJ) Vol. 29, No. 4.<\/p>\n

2004 “Fitting the ‘Rez’ Into Race.<\/a>” Forum commentary for Past Place<\/i>, newsletter of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG).<\/p>\n

2004 Letter to editor<\/a> on Sawyer County WI hunter shootings and generalizations about Hmong citizens.<\/p>\n

2004 Water is Life<\/a> class website of Geography 378 (International Environmental Problems & Policy), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.<\/p>\n

2004 “Class Websites Contribute to Global Environmental Awareness<\/a>,” in Teaching with\u00a0<\/i>Technology Today <\/i>(University of Wisconsin System magazine).<\/p>\n

2003 “Crandon mine victory won by a historic alliance<\/a>,” with Debra McNutt in the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram<\/i> (Nov. 2), Wisconsin State Journal, Ojibwe Akiing<\/i>, Earth First<\/i>, and other websites and newspapers.<\/p>\n

2003 “Indian-bashing: A new pastime in ‘tolerant’ Madison?<\/a>” with Debra McNutt in Wisconsin State Journal<\/i> (Dec. 29), Isthmus, American Jewish World.<\/i><\/p>\n

2003 “Cowboy and Indian Alliances in the Northern Plains<\/a>.” Agricultural History<\/i> (Spring).<\/p>\n

2002 “Effects of White Racial Advantages in Environmental Alliances<\/a>,” on Wisconsin Ho-Chunk\/farmer alliances against low-level jet flights, bombing range, and Perrier, at Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual conference, Los Angeles; published in Wisconsin Geographer\u00a0<\/i>and Udall Foundation Collection of Essays.<\/p>\n

2001 Wisconsin’s Native\/non-Native anti-mining alliance<\/a>, with Dr. Al Gedicks in Cultural Survival Quarterly.<\/i><\/p>\n

2001 “From Enemies to Allies<\/a>,” with Debra McNutt in ColorLines<\/em>, and\u00a0 Multiracial Formations: New Instruments for Social Change <\/a><\/i>Gary Delgado, ed. (Oakland, Calif: Applied Research Center).<\/p>\n

2001 “Hunters, animal rights activists share a common love: nature<\/a>.” Wisconsin State Journal\u00a0<\/i>column (Apr. 7).<\/p>\n

2001 “Place membership” in ethnic conflict management: the case of Native Americans and white ranchers\/farmers<\/a>, on rural environmental alliances in Oregon, Montana, and South Dakota, at Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual conference, New York.<\/p>\n

2000 “Geographies of Inclusion: Interethnic Alliances for Environmental Protection,” <\/a>on Wisconsin spearfishing and mining disputes, at Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual conference, Pittsburgh. Winner of AAG American Indian Speciality Group student paper competition; published in The North American Geographe<\/i>r.<\/p>\n

2000 Sustaining the Forest, the People, and the Spirit <\/i>book review<\/a> on Menominee forestry. Wisconsin Magazine of History.<\/i><\/p>\n

2000 New Brunswick Mi’kmaq treaty fishing dispute: Lessons from Wisconsin<\/a>. Toronto Globe and Mail <\/i>(Sept. 14), with Andrew Gokee and Debra McNutt.<\/p>\n

1999 “Kosovo, <\/a>Apaches, and Ethnic Cleansing<\/a>,” in The Circle <\/i>(Minneapolis), Zmag.org, Synthesis\/Regeneration.<\/i><\/p>\n

1998 “Taking It to the Top: Grassroots Organizing in the New Corporate Era<\/a>,” keynote to Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice (WNPJ), published by People’s News Service<\/i> (Denmark).<\/p>\n

1996 “Chippewa Blockade Acid Shipments<\/a>,” on Bad River Ojibwe blockade of rail track to stop acid shipments to White Pine mine, in The Progressive<\/i> (Madison).<\/p>\n

1995 “Native and Environmental Movements<\/a>,” (on Indigenous Environmental Network) in Z\u00a0<\/i>magazine (Boston).<\/p>\n

1995 “Tailing Exxon and Rio Algom<\/a>” with Dr. Al Gedicks, in Multinational Monitor<\/i><\/p>\n

1995 Militias and the Oklahoma City bombing, in\u00a0Madison Times<\/i> (Wisconsin).<\/p>\n

1992 “Through the Looking Glass: Letter from a European Rights Activist<\/a>,” speculative fiction on Native American invasion of Europe, in <\/i>Report on the Americas (Washington),\u00a0Akwesasne Notes<\/i> (Mohawk Nation), News From Indian Country<\/i> (Wisconsin), Northern Sun News <\/i>(Minneapolis), Peace News<\/i> (London). Translations:<\/i> German<\/a> Spanish<\/a> Russian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1992 “Sarajevo and Los Angeles: A Tale of Two Cities<\/a>,” in New Liberation News Service<\/em> \/ PSN News <\/i>(Washington), The Edge\u00a0<\/i>(Madison).<\/p>\n

1991-2002 Wisconsin mining reports<\/a>, in News From Indian Country <\/i>(Wisconsin), Masinaigan <\/i>(Wisconsin), Shepherd Express<\/i> (Milwaukee), The Guardian<\/i> (New York), Milwaukee Business Journal, Against the Current<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/i>Translations:<\/i> Spanish<\/a> and German<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1989-91 Ojibwe (Chippewa) treaty rights <\/a>fight, in Z <\/i>magazine (Boston), Pogrom<\/i> (Germany), Coyote <\/i>(Germany), Teepee<\/i> (Italy), Svoboda<\/i> (Russia), Sojourners<\/i> (Washington) The Guardian<\/i> (New York), Forward Motion <\/i>(Boston), Heartland (Chicago), Northern Sun News (Minneapolis), Masinaigan<\/i> (Wisconsin), The Circle<\/i> (Minneapolis), News From Indian Country<\/i> (Wisconsin), and\u00a0Against the Current<\/i><\/a> (Detroit).<\/p>\n

1986 “Inside the Philippine Resistance<\/a>,” in Race and Class <\/i>(London).<\/p>\n

1983 Relations Between the Left and Indigenous Peoples <\/i>(unpublished manuscript, from Directed Studies with University of Wisconsin-Madison History Professor Steve Stern).<\/p>\n

1982-84 Nuclear issues and Native American sovereignty, in Daily Cardinal <\/i>(Madison).<\/p>\n

1982 Milwaukee Police and the Black Community<\/a>, in WIN<\/i> magazine (New York).<\/p>\n

1982 Interview with Mapuche leader Nilo Cayuqueo\u00a0<\/a>(JSTOR) on Indigenous peoples and the Left, in\u00a0Latin American Perspectives<\/i> (Berkeley), Native Peoples News<\/i> (London), and Akwesasne Notes <\/i>(Mohawk Nation).<\/p>\n

1981 South African nuclear program and African uranium wars<\/a>, in Milwaukee Courier <\/i>(Wisconsin), Northern Sun News<\/i> (Minneapolis), North Country Anvil<\/i> (Minnesota), and Daily Cardinal <\/i>(Madison). Map<\/a><\/p>\n

1979 Black Hills issues, in World In<\/i>formation Service on Energy<\/em> (Amsterdam), Native Peoples News<\/em> (London).<\/p>\n

1978 Reports on Native American issues and Minnesota powerline, in Metro Student News\u00a0<\/i>(Minneapolis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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