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Joann Tall
About Tall's personal experiences with the sterilization of Native American women starting in the 1960's. Also about the detrimental health impacts of sterilization as well as contaminated water, radiation exposures, and pesticides. Also about the boarding schools and political obstacles to resisting the destruction of her tribes health and land. Brief mention about the positive impacts of the Occupation of Wounded Knee.
Yvonne Swan and Lisa Michel
Yvonne speaks about Native American spirituality in contrast with religion, which she associates with the history of Christianity. Also about personal spiritual experiences, followed by a prayer of strength and peace, and a song.
Lisa speaks about her personal experiences with childbirth and the lack of medical attention during pregnancy and birth. As a Native American woman, she remarks on all the diseases children are born with and how sterilization isn't effective because doctors do not explain the procedure.
Tina Fry
Speaks about her personal experiences with traumatic health problems during childbirth, forced sterilization and experimental drugs in her Native American community. Also about a lack of doctors, poor access to care, and medical malpractice.
Alison Govings
About personal health problems and her decision to be sterilized. Also about doctors denying care, and a lack of pediatricians and specialized health care providers.
Alison Stewart
About health problems facing pregnant women and coerced sterilization. Also about Native Americans being exploited by logging companies and mines and the challenges to acting against these corporations. She also discusses her personal health, activism, and the environmental issues facing the Native American community.
Joann Tall
Call Number: CD 674Format: CDProducers: Carole TravisCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
About Tall's personal experiences with the sterilization of Native American women starting in the 1960's. Also about the detrimental health impacts of sterilization as well as contaminated water, radiation exposures, and pesticides. Also about the boarding schools and political obstacles to resisting the destruction of her tribes health and land. Brief mention about the positive impacts of the Occupation of Wounded Knee.
Yvonne Swan and Lisa Michel
Call Number: CD 729Format: CDProducers: Carole TravisCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Yvonne Swan speaks about Native American spirituality in contrast with religion, which she associates with the history of Christianity. Also about personal spiritual experiences, followed by a prayer of strength and peace, and a song.
Lisa Michel speaks about her personal experiences with childbirth and the lack of medical attention during pregnancy and birth. As a Native American woman, she remarks on all the diseases children are born with and how sterilization isn't effective because doctors do not explain the procedure.
Tina Fry speaks about her personal experiences with traumatic health problems during childbirth, forced sterilization and experimental drugs in her Native American community. Also about a lack of doctors, poor access to care, and medical malpractice.
Joann Tall
About Tall's personal experiences with the sterilization of Native American women starting in the 1960's. Also about the detrimental health impacts of sterilization as well as contaminated water, radiation exposures, and pesticides. Also about the boarding schools and political obstacles to resisting the destruction of her tribes health and land. Brief mention about the positive impacts of the Occupation of Wounded Knee.
35% Puerto Rican Women Sterilized
Publisher: Committee for Puerto Rican DecolonizationYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 2-5Format: ArticleCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
An article from the Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization in New York exposing the massive sterilization program carried out by the U.S. Government and the Rockefeller Foundation in response to the "population problem" in Puerto Rico that was seen as responsible for widespread unemployment.
Gov't Network Sterilizes Workers
Publisher: Committee for Puerto Rican DecolonizationFormat: ArticleCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
A continuation of an article about the history of mass sterilization in Puerto Rico but focuses on the problems with the current health system and includes the results of a 1968 study on sterilzation.