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Article Evaluation: Water Security

Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? Yes everything in the article was relevent to the topic, there was nothing that distracted me. I think every piece of information was needed and very interesting regarding the water security. Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? Yes it was neutral, this article talked about all types of issues dealing with the global water. Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? All of the links that i checked have worked, and they also support the argument.

Annotated Bibliography
Arquette, Mary, et al. "Holistic risk-based environmental decision making: a Native perspective." Environmental health perspectives 110.Suppl 2 (2002): 259. This article goes in depth about the Native American’s concern about the toxic waste dumped on to their lands. Tools such as risk assessment and risk management processes have not been so good to the native people. This article talks about how Native Americans want to expand the definition of heath because they believe that nobody sees the definition how they do and they also want to incorporate traditional data into decision making instead of just theories back and forward. This article discussed a project called “First Environment Restoration Initiative”, what they are trying to do is come up with a solution to address toxicant issues facing the Mohawk territory of Akwesasne. It develops a community-defined example of which health is protected for once while also practicing their traditional culture. This connects to our research in many ways, we get an overall view of what the Native Americans do themselves to fix the situation while also understanding their background and where they come from. This can be helpful for additional information on other topics as well.

Elizabeth Hoover (2017): Environmental reproductive justice: intersections in an American Indian 		 community impacted by environmental contamination, Environmental Sociology, DOI: 			 10.1080/23251042.2017.1381898 This paper explores in depth the how toxicants have threatened the reproduction of the tribal cultures and their humanity rights. They do so by exploring the intersectionality of the environmental justice and the reproductive justice and how these two complement each other on finding out these issues going on in the Native American community. They want to have a deeper focus on the environment by doing so. These American Indian communities argue that justice needs are beyond the equality of protection, Elizabeth Hoover discovers how the notion of Environmental reproduction justice can be exploited to recognize the distinctive position they are in. “Using intersectionality as an analytic lens helps us to understand how individuals are differently affected by outside forces based on the varying combinations of their identities – race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship” (Hoover) This is an excellent source for our project because it explores the views through two highly reliable sources of environmental equality in EJ and RJ, combining the two ideas and power can create a change in the Indian culture.

Joyce Ann Kievit. “A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities.” 			  American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, 2003, pp. 3–45. JSTOR, JSTOR, 	 			 www.jstor.org/stable/4138840. In this article the author Joyce Ann Kievet gives us a dialogue of discussions she has had with people in these indigenous communities. Most of the discussion that took place was somewhat of a noticeable pattern in the fact that the discussion that follows illustrates that there are significant disagreements between scholars and American Indian communities over scholarly research and Indigenous cultural heritage and intellectual property right. Not all Native’s agreed with Indian groups controlling research activity within their community because they could be biased. It was pretty intriguing to see that the discussion generated a lively exchange of ideas from the people inside. The author believes that we need to find solutions to these differences so that academics and tribes can work together to solve problems for their mutual benefit. This would be a great source for our project because we get a direct answer from those within the community. There are not many reliable sources that get a chance to talk to Native Americans and get their insight on what they believe will work in their own community.

Mascarenhas, Michael. "Where the Waters Divide: First Nations, Tainted Water and Environmental 		 Justice in Canada." Local Environment, vol. 12, no. 6, Dec. 2007, pp. 565-577. EBSCOhost, 	doi:10.1080/13549830701657265. ‘Where the water divides’ gives us a different look at environmental justice, Mascarenhas dives in the theoretical frame between neoliberalism and environmental justice. Neoliberalism is a form of liberalism favoring the free market capitalism. Which I think would be virtuous for the Native Americans but they tend to be discriminatory against Canada's indigenous peoples, helping to aggravate past inequalities in health, environment pollution, and well-being. “This ‘new’ form of environmental governance has broadly reduced legitimate opportunities for First Nations to participate in environmental governance that affects their health and welfare.” Some Native’s questioned the decision to convert to this type of system, if it does not change for the better of the people then why change at all? I think this article is a great fit for our research because if we understand the morals and complication of this new form of governance then we can find possible solutions into helping these Native groups out.

Santiago-rivera, Asara L., et al. "Building a Community-Based Research Partnership: Lessons from the 		 Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne." Journal of Community Psychology, vol. 26, no. 2, Mar. 1998, 		 pp. 163-174. EBSCOhost, 									proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx? direct=true&db=a9h&AN=11771668&site=eds-live. This article by Santiago-Rivera is all about getting their information from the development of a community based research in these cultural communities. In order to do so she collaborated with the ‘Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne’. What she wants to get out of this is to simply resolve the difference through getting everyone to come together and be one. Not one thing or person can fix this problem. There are a lot of issues that are presented in this article that Santiago-Rivera believes the research can help with. “This research project follows the guiding principles of respect, equity, and empowerment.” This is because these are Mohawks beliefs. Through these three principles Santiago-Rivera believes she is a step closer to getting environmental justice for these Native American and also this can help those of the community branch off into their own project by obtaining the skills and knowledge through this training. This is a very powerful article because it gives us insight on what the Native Americans are learning and who takes this knowledge and power to the next level.