The Contemporary American Indian Women Under the Conceptual Horizon of Environmental Justice

The concept of Environmental Justice began as an environmental movement of the Africa-Americans in the United States in the 1980s, aiming to criticize the environmental injustice, maintain the justice relationship either between human and nature or among humans, and realize the prospects of harmonious and sustainable development of nature, human and society. Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Linda Hogan's Solar Storm reveal the predicament of the contemporary American Indian women in environmental injustice. Moreover, how they awaken from the traditional American Indian culture, form the Environmental Justice awareness, and struggle for the justice in environment is demonstrated as well.