Please check out and support the strong work being done by these two women in SD. Debra White Plume, a Lakota grandmother and clean water activist, views nearby uranium mining operations as one source of water contamination and as an encroachment on the water rights of the Lakota Nation. She is the lead plaintiff in a case challenging uranium mining on tribal land, and works with her community to protect treaty territory from exploitation of their natural resources by corporate interests. Elisha Yellow Thunder, a Lakota mother and a geology student, seeks answers through science and the earth itself. During her pregnancy, she unknowingly drank contaminated water and her daughter, Laila, was born with severe medical anomalies. Currently Laila fights kidney failure. When Yellow Thunder can take time away from caring for Laila, she maps ore outcroppings on the Pine Ridge Reservation in search of uranium and the origins of water contamination.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 22:56:47 +0000
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