Native American Environmental Leader Tom Goldtooth: Climate Change Bill Fails to Address Indigenous Rights
May 22nd, 2009
Tom Goldtooth is executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network headquartered at Bemidji, Minnesota. For over thirty years, he has been an environmental and economic justice leader in the Native American community. He joins us to talk about the congressional climate change bill and Native American efforts to address the resource extractions causing environmental degradation in their communities.
To continue the discussion about climate change, we are now joined by Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network headquartered at Bemidji, Minnesota. He is in New York this week for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. For over 30 years he has been an environmental and economic justice leader in the Native American community. Tom Goldtooth, welcome to Democracy Now.
Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), headquartered at Bemidji, Minnesota. He is Dine
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