ABSTRACT
This chapter employs an environmental justice perspective to explore the unequal relationship between Western societies and Indigenous peoples, which have resulted in a higher occurrence of environmental or ‘green’ crimes on tribal lands. More specifically, this chapter offers an analysis of green criminal behaviour on and around Native American reservations using geospatial cluster analysis to examine prolonged case studies that instantiate and highlight the relevance of the historical processes and lasting effects of hazardous exposures. Key court rulings and environmental laws are also used to illustrate characteristics of the legal-procedural framework that continues to enable colonial power relations throughout the United States that facilitate unequal toxin exposure. Findings are then used to advance a critique of several policies that have enabled the expansion of environmental crimes in and around reservations.
