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Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, Lakota

ronniefa — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:48:15 +0000

Chadron, Nebraska, May 2011 Beatrice is 86 years old and lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. She is one of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a global alliance that teaches ancestral ways of prayer, education, and healing. Beatrice has been a health care worker for the tribe since 1974, and today delivers medicines to TB patients on the reservation.

Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, Lakota

ronniefa — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:47:02 +0000

Chadron, Nebraska, May 2011 Beatrice is 86 years old and lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. She is one of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a global alliance that teaches ancestral ways of prayer, education, and healing. Beatrice has been a health care worker for the tribe since 1974. She is seen here at her truck which she uses to deliver medicines to TB patients on the reservation.

Lily Mae Red Owl, Lakota

ronniefa — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:46:57 +0000

Elizabeth Hoover, Mohawk

ronniefa — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:45:52 +0000

Wild Horse Sanctuary, Hot Springs, South Dakota, 2011 Elizabeth is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and American Studies at Brown University. Her research interests include environmental health and subsistence revival movements in Native American communities.

Elizabeth Hoover, Mohawk

ronniefa — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:40:16 +0000

Hot Springs, South Dakota, 2011 Besides being a professor at Brown University, Elizabeth is a top-notch beadwork artist and is seen here beading moccasins for a friend.

Kim Tilsen-Braveheart, Lakota

ronniefa — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:35:34 +0000

Rapid City, South Dakota, 2011 Kim is at home with her newborn daughter Paloma. Kim is a small business consultant who likes to work with Native artists.

Bear Fox with Delia Cook, Mohawk

ronniefa — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:30:05 +0000

Akwesasne Reservation, New York, 2009 Theresa Kenkiokoktha Fox, or 'Bear' Fox (seated), is a Mohawk singer, composer and educator. Delia Cook is one of the Turtle Clan Mothers of the Mohawk Nation. Delia Cook leans over Bear Fox who was being awarded a Community Spirit Award from the First People's Fund—a national organization that supports Indigenous artistic expression and its relationship to the collective spirit of First Peoples.

Katsi Cook, Mohawk

ronniefa — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:25:24 +0000

Wild Horse Sanctuary, Hot Springs, South Dakota, 2011 Katsi is an Aboriginal Midwife, mother of six and grandmother of seven. Since 1983, she has conducted award-winning environmental justice health research in her home community of Akwesasne, NY. Katsi currently works in Maternal and Child Health qualitative research for the Tribal Epidemiology Center at United South and Eastern Tribes (USET, Inc.), Nashville, Tennessee. She is researching and writing about environmental and reproductive justice issues in Native America.

Dottie Chamblin, Makah

ronniefa — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:15:28 +0000

Charmaine White Face, Oglala Tituwan

ronniefa — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:44:20 +0000

Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 2011 Charmaine is a biologist, writer, activist and grandmother. In 2007, she received the Nuclear-Free Future Award, from the Foundation for the Coming Generations in Munich, Germany, for her work with Defenders of the Black Hills, an organization she founded in 2002, that monitors abandoned uranium mines on sacred Lakota lands and seeks the remediation of hazardous waste ponds that contaminate the region with high levels of radium 226, arsenic, lead and iron.