Carolyn Harding with Dawn Knickerbocker, Jheri Neri and Guy Jones, indigenous leaders and organizers in SW Ohio.
The Federal Court's decision to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline for a complete environmental impact assessment, and what's the impact on Ohio Indigenous and ally Water Protectors - across the nation and beyond.
Dawn Knickerbocker belongs to the Anishinaabe people and a citizen of the White Earth Nation. She is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe from the Ottertail Pillager band of Indians. She is an environmentalist, activist, and indigi-feminist working on culturally-based sustainable development issues and decolonization in her own community on Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Dawn is a current board member of the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition, co-leader of Mothers Out Front of Ohio, co-founder of W.A.R.N. Ohio (Women of All Red Nations). She’s the former elected Chair of the Advisory Commission on Diversity for the State of Washington and is a published nonfiction writer, poet, and speaker and has a master's degree in human rights practice.
Jheri Neri belongs to the Indie Diné people. He works as the Executive Director with the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition. He is a published writer, artist, activist and water protector. Jheri has worked with Tribal leaders all over the Nation and the World on issues from sovereignty, ceremony, sustainable development, and more. He was a part of Standing Rock from start to finish.
Guy Jones of the Hunkpapa Lakota, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He is the founder and current leader of the Miami Valley Council for Native Americans in Dayton, Ohio, and the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition. Guy has served as an advisor to the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, the Minority Arts Task Force of the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Dayton Race Relations Task Force, and the Bias Review Council of the Ohio Department of Education.
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