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Charmaine White Face Livestock Grazing in the Black Hills Charmaine White Face (Zumila Wobaga), a member of the Oglala band of the Tetons of the Great Sioux Nation (Tetuwan Oceti Sakowin), has had a multi-faceted career as college science instructor, political columnist, and activist. Ms. White Face is a former treasurer of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the author of Testimony for the Innocent (Brunswick, ME: Audenreed Press, 1998), a book about financial corruption in tribal government. She is the founder and coordinator of Defenders of the Black Hills, a volunteer group working to ensure that the United States government upholds the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868. Charmaine White Face provides a Lakota spiritual perspective on livestock grazing in the Black Hills National Forest located in the Black Hills (Paha Sapa) of South Dakota. Recorded in September 2004. |
