The NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE AWARDS
Charmaine Whiteface and Defenders of the Black Hills, Lakota Nation, USA
Category Resistance – 2007
In 2002, Charmaine White Face, an Oglala woman from the Pine Ridge reserve, founded the “Defenders of the Black Hills” organization with like-minded people. The extraction of uranium has led to a major radioactive contamination in the south and west of the mountains. To this day, the former boreholes, sinkholes and flood basins are waiting for remediation and provide increased radioactive contamination.
