The Haida Gwaii Lesson and Racist Conservation
Mark Dowie is a self-styled investigative historian, and the author of the recent books, Conservation Refugees and The Haida Gwaii Lesson. After a long career as a journalist, which included breaking the story of the exploding Ford Pinto in the 1970s, as well as a stint as the managing editor of Mother Jones, Dowie took his investigative approach to the field of history.In Conservation Refugees, a revisionist history of the conservation movement, he explores how Indigenous People have been forcibly displaced from their traditional homelands all across the globe in the name of conservation. The Haida Gwaii Lesson, written as a follow up to Conservation Refugees, was designed to be a strategic playbook for Indigenous sovereignty. The book analyzes the history of the Haida Gwaii Nation, located off the Western coast of Canada, with a focus on how the Haida people have regained much of their sovereignty. It was written specifically to provide Indigenous Nations with information to aid their own struggles to regain sovereignty. Join the Earth to Humans book club!This episode of Earth to Humans marks the official launch of our new book club! If you join the book club for just $1 per month, you’ll get a digital copy of Mark’s book, The Haida Gwaii Lesson, and be invited to join a discussion session with the author. Click here to join! Music by:Bauxite by Blue Dot SessionsIn Passage by Blue Dot SessionsAdditional audio from the show's intro sequence provided by: