Environmental Projects
ECO Girls Project
ECO Girls is a project that provided Environmental and Cultural Opportunities for Girls in urban Southeast Michigan. The project was founded in 2011 to connect a concern for the pressing environmental issues of our time with a desire to promote the positive development of girls in urban centers. The project aimed to reach girls of color and girls in economically challenged areas whose neighborhoods too often become depositories for environmental waste but whose communities are left out of strategic planning for a future that will be affected by resource depletion and global climate change.
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Red Thunder Oral History Project
The Red Thunder Oral History Project was born on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in November of 2013, when academic psychologist and Native American Studies professor Joseph P. Gone was invited by the Native American Student Association to speak on a faculty panel on indigenous environmental issues. Dr. Gone shared the history of his own father’s, Joseph Azure’s, core participation in a grassroots fight against mining at the Ft. Belknap Indian Reservation in the 1990s.
After much thought and spiritual reflection, Joe W. Azure agreed to support an oral history project, which was formally launched in Montana in July of 2016. The collaborative group’s efforts included the completion of this Red Thunder teaching website.