W.A.R.N.

In the late 1970s, a powerful group of Native women formed the "Women of All Red Nations" to take on the fight against uranium mining that led to the environmental destruction and poisoning of the local water supply and ultimately caused devastating reproductive health emergencies in South Dakota.

These warrior women helped expose the practice of illegal sterilization in the Indian Health Service and brought the remarkable coalition of “Cowboys and Indians” into the Black Hills Alliance. Together they stopped a uranium mining corporation and protected the water for all in South Dakota. They took the fight from the most local pockets of reservation life all the way to the top— galvanizing a global movement for Indigenous rights at the United Nations. 

W.A.R.N. women have been fighting to protect water and life and create recognition that Water Is Life for decades. Massive extractive fossil fuel projects, like the TransCanada KXL Pipeline, are a direct attack on the human right to clean water, they violate the global United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and undermine everything these grandmothers have fought to protect—for you. While we fight the pipelines and the devastation they bring to our water and the earth, we must also be prepared to protect the women and girls living in the community near the “man camps” built to house the temporary workforce. History shows, women and girls will go missing and be found murdered as the workforce moves in. 

They need your help.  This is your fight now.  W.A.R.N. is a movement . . . see what’s next!

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