Various Peoples of Turtle Island understood that health was communal and dependent on multiple systems of Kinship. The Nauhtle speaking Peoples created systems of health through urban infrastructure to plant based healing.

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Columbus and other cannibals land on Turtle Island and Abya Yala, bringing disease, inhumane social infrastructure, poorly developed healthcare, engineering, and science as well as systemic violence in the forms of genocide and slavery.

They also spread this cannbolism all over the world, seeding an era of Land and human oppression. Indigenous and Land based cultures forcibly removed from our Lands, breaking Kinship. Creating the root our current health and planetary problems.

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W. E. B. Du Bois ran the first sociological study that highlighted the dynamics between the built environment, living conditions, work, racialisation, and how this created a specific lived experience for those who were racialised as Black, which at this time meant having recently experienced slavery or being a direct descendant. This map of the seventh ward illustrates the segregation of residences by race and social class in the neighborhood surrounding the Pennsylvania Hospital and was included as the frontispiece in The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W.E.B. Dubois, published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 1899.

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Provided essential epidemiological evidence linking the mining work environment to lung disease. Creating one of the first pieces of research linking place and health in the UK.

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In his book "The Mis-education of a Negro", Dr. Carter Goodwin Woodson linked the poor health outcomes of those racialised as Black on poor living conditions and other socio-economic inequities.

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Dr. Carson published Silent Spring, which brought public attention to the poor health outcomes related to endocrine disruptors found in our water sources. She also linked habitat health with human health.

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Founded the "Poor Peoples Campaign" with the intention to give people what they need to live a life of dignity.

Creates a map of landfill site locations and their proximity to racialised Black neighbourhoods. It provided a geospatial data approach to structural racism. He coined the term "environmental racism" giving us for the first time lexicon for environmental justice.

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