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Charmaine White Face 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 volunteer organization centered around efforts to encourage the United States government to honor the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868. 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 to the UN.. 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 is also a writer and a grandmother.  

Also see Uranium mining and nuclear pollution in the Upper mid west

Many wrongs do not make a right

Shortsightedness in a Sacred Place
 
Riley Pass Abandoned Uranium Mine
This is a video of the Riley Pass Abandoned Uranium Mine on the North Cave Hills Unit, Custer National Forest taken by Harold J. One Feather.

As this abandoned uranium mine is highly radioactive, please don't visit this site with any children and if you must see for yourself; take proper precautions such as using breathing filters to keep from breathing the dust and stay upwind to keep from breathing radon and other radioactive dust!   
 
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 Map of uranium mines
Memories Come To Us In the Rain and the Wind
By Doug Brugge and Timothy Benally
Uranium and the Navajo Nation Arizona and New Mexico
 
 
Blighted Homeland
During the Cold War, uranium mines left contaminated waste scattered around the Navajo Nation. Homes built with it silently pulsed with radiation. People developed cancer. And the U.S. did little to help. By Judy Pasternak
 
Photo of uranium 235
The Defenders of the Black Hills Is a group of volunteers, without racial or tribal boundaries, whose mission is to ensure that all of the provisions of the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868 are upheld by the federal government of the United States. In doing so, these volunteers are also upholding the Constitution of the United States which, in Article Six, states that "treaties are the Supreme Law of the land."

 

Until the Treaties are upheld, the actions of the Defenders are to restore and protect the environment of the Black Hills and the surrounding Treaty Area to the best of their ability. See Video

 
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