Charmaine White Face, Oglala Tituwan

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.