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Ellen Moves Camp (1931–2008)) [1] was an Oglala woman who played a critical role in activism for Indians in America. [2] Her name became known when Dick Wilson, a chairman elected to oversee their reservation, started heavily persecuting the Native Americans that lived there. [3]
Matilda "Tillie" Black Bear (Lakota: Wa Wokiye Win, meaning Woman Who Helps Everyone; [1] December 10, 1946 – July 19, 2014) [2] was a Lakota anti-domestic violence activist known as the Grandmother (Unci) of the Grassroots Movement of Safety for Native Women. [3] She worked as an activist, therapist, school counselor, nonprofit administrator ...
This alternative model was a component of the National Federation of Native-Controlled Survival Schools that was established during the movement as a Native alternative to government-run education. [19] In 1974, Thunder Hawk and DeCora, along with a handful of other Native American women, founded Women of All Red Nations (WARN). Following the ...
Pages in category "Native American women in warfare" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), the quarter-century old law that compensates Americans sickened by U.S. nuclear testing, expired this summer, but two Native American women are ...
Lorelei DeCora Means (née DeCora; born 1954) is a Native American nurse and civil rights activist.She is best known for her role in the second siege in the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975 [1] [2]) was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada. . Aquash moved to Boston in the 1960s and joined other First Nations and Indigenous Americans focused on education, resistance, and police brutality against urban Indigenous peo
Women of All Red Nations (WARN) was a Native American women's organization that fought for Native American civil and reproductive rights. It was established in 1974 by Lorelei DeCora Means , Madonna Thunderhawk , Phyllis Young , Janet McCloud , Marie Sanchez and others.