Native Americans
This collection contains interviews, commentary and stories about Native American resistance against Euro-American settler colonialism. Specific topics addressed include the 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee, health and medical conditions on reservations, environmental and ecological challenges facing Native communities and the voices of Native leaders.
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Lilias Jones and Madonna Thunderhawk
Lilias Jones speaks about the uranium spills on the Black Hills Native American reservation and how privately owned corporations neglect the toxic spills. No studies have been funded to determine its effects. Also Native Americans lack power to resist these large corporations.
Interview with Madonna Thunderhawk discussing how sterilization, loss of land, and radiation exposure are all elements of genocide committed against Native American populations. Also Native American's refuse to assimilate because of spirituality and connection to the land also the importance of self-determination in resisting forced removals of indigenous populations.
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 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
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.
Native American Growing Fight against Sterilizations of Women
Article discussing evidence of the genocidal campaign of sterilizations that the US government is carrying out against Native peoples.
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