Charmaine White Face
| Charmaine White Face | |
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_presenting_%22America's_Chernobyl%22.jpg) Charmaine White Face, teacher, activist, and elder of the Oglala Sioux Nation does her presentation, "America's Chernobyl" - the facts about the 3,272 abandoned open pit uranium mines in the Great Sioux Territory - on a 10 day tour on the East Coast, 2013 | |
| Tribe | Oglala Lakota elder |
| Born | Pine Ridge Indian Reservation |
| Native name | Zumila Wobaga |
Charmaine White Face, or Zumila Wobaga, is an Oglala Tetuwan (Lakota language speaker) from the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) in North America.
She is known for her work in support of Native American rights, in particular as coordinator of the Defenders of the Black Hills, a volunteer organization centered around efforts to encourage the United States government to honor the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868.[1][2]
She also works at the international level in support of recognition of human rights of indigenous peoples all over the world. She is the spokesperson for the Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council. She was a participant in the prayer fast/hunger strike held in December 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland at the final meeting of the Intersessional Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (WGDD). She has worked to preserve Bear Butte,[3][4] on monitoring of abandoned uranium mines, on "environmental remediation of hazardous waste ponds,"[5] and in the anti-nuclear power movement.[6] In Jan. 2013, she raised concerns about radiation exposure of South Dakota Army National Guard soldiers in the Buffalo Gap National Grassland.[7]
Charmaine White Face is also a columnist and freelance writer who has written for Indian Country Today, the Rapid City Journal, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, and The Lakota Journal, and a grandmother.[4][8]
See also
- Black Hills
- Janet McCloud
- Uranium in the environment
- Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
- The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
- Manuel Pino
- Uranium mining debate
- Thomas Banyacya
References
- ↑ Defenders of the Black Hills
- ↑ "Interview with Charmaine White Face". Quiet Mountain Essays VI (II). Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ↑ Charmaine White Face. "Sacred Bear Butte Threatened". Native Voice, Manataka Indian Council. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bommersbach, Jana (2009-11-03). "Defender of the Black Hills : Charmaine White Face is helping protect a sacred Sioux landmark.". True West, Preserving the American West. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ↑ "Charmaine White Face and the Defenders of the Black Hills, 2007 Nuclear-Free Future Award Preisträger". Franz Moll Foundation. 2011. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
- ↑ Kulbokas, Maggie (2013-02-22). "Charmaine White Face to walk, speak about a nuclear free future in Plymouth". Plymouth Daily News. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ↑ "Charmaine White Face: Deadly dose of uranium for soldiers". Indianz.Com. 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- ↑ "Dakota Wesleyan University Press Release". 2008-03-12. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
External links
- Defenders of the Black Hills
- "Livestock Grazing in the Black Hills" - video of interview with Charmaine White Face
- Sacred Land, Poisoned Peoples; the Pre-Congress report at the 19th Annual IPPNW Conference, Basel Switzerland
- Charmaine White Face. Testimony for the Innocent. ISBN 9781879418752. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
- Charmaine White Face. "The Black Hills are Still Sacred". Earth First! Journal. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- "Interview with Charmaine White Face". Quiet Mountain Essays VI (II). Retrieved 2013-03-27.