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Laila and Elisha

Elisha waits with Laila during her dialysis treatment three days a week.

Elisha Yellow Thunder

Elisha, a geology student, with ore to be tested.

Crow Butte

Crazy Horse went to vision quest here. Now it's the base of the in situ leech mine.

Laila and Elisha

Elisha waits with Laila during her dialysis treatment three days a week.

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For the first six months of my pregnancy, I was drinking highly contaminated water from our well. My daughter was born with severe medical anomalies. 

--Elisha Yellow Thunder, Mother

Elisha's Story

Debra White Plume Visits Cameco Mine

The Cameco Mine sits on Lakota Treaty Territory and at the base of the Crow Butte sacred site.

Debra at Home

Debra looks on as a storm approaches her home near Manderson, SD.

Debra Arrest

Debra White Plume is arrested following a sit-in at the White House.

Debra White Plume Visits Cameco Mine

The Cameco Mine sits on Lakota Treaty Territory and at the base of the Crow Butte sacred site.

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Mni (water) is our first home. When we come here from the Star Nation, we dwell in our mother's womb- in water. When we're born, we're given a drop of water.

Water is our first medicine...it's sacred to us, we use it in every ceremony.

And we acknowledge that without water there is no life. 

--Debra White Plume, Grandmother and Clean Water Activist

Elisha's Story

Debra's Story