Katsi Cook, midwife, environmentalist, indigenous rights activist

Katsi Cook talks about the origins of the Mothers’ Milk Project in 1983 to monitor the environmental impact of industrial development and the resulting PCB contamination of the water in the Akwesasne community on the St. Regis Reservation along the St. Lawrence River.  

Cook was interviewed for the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Her papers are also in the SSC.


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