In the Late 1960s, the River Running Through the Ojibwa

question 62

Multiple Choice

In the late 1960s, the river running through the Ojibwa village of Grassy Narrows in Ontario was poisoned for 50 years by mercury pollution from a local pulp mill. What does this example illustrate?

• A) eco-racial discrimination
• B) environmental racism
• C) racially motivated degradation
• D) eco-racial insensitivity

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