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W. (1980). Radiation: "Dangerous to Pine Ridge Women,". Akwesasne Notes. doi:http://www.oocities.org/lakotastudentalliance/warnstudy_radiation.pdf

This study was conducted by WARN, to measure how uranium drilling negatively affects female reproduction. The authors in the study reveal how dangerous uranium drilling is and has been to women's reproductive health, but also to the health of possible newborns. The authors also reveal the unwillingness the government has shown in researching the affects and presenting a solution. The authors also reveal how this is not just one localized problem in Lakota, but in reservations throughout the United States.

Churchill, W., & Laduke, W. (1986). Native America: the Political Economy of Radioactive Colonialism. Critical Sociology,13(3), 51-78. doi:10.1177/089692058601300306

In this paper the authors reveal a new lens to look through when discussing environmental degradation on native people in America. They both explain how the forced removal of land from natives to white settlers is still continuing in the form of using radioactive chemicals that negatively impact native people who are in the surrounding areas. That colonization hasn't stopped, but transformed and one way colonization is played out today is in the form of producing radioactive chemicals.

Jarding, L.J. (2011). Uranium Activities' Impacts on Lakota Territory. Indigenous Policy Journal, 22.,

from http://www.indigenouspolicy.org/index.php/ipj/article/view/48/83

The author of this paper illustrates the consequences that the people of the Lakota territory have faced because of uranium mining. Jarding reveals that uranium mining is not the clean nuclear power we were looking for. She measures the radiation levels around the mining sites to determine whether these levels are high enough to interfere with the health of the people living in the surrounding areas. Radiation levels both in the air and in the various types of water; groundwater, steam sediments and surface water around the region. The author reveals the extremely high levels of radiation that are coming from uranium mining that are traveling through various modes in which all end up in contact with people. This paper brings us to question whether it is safe for us to continue to mine uranium and reveals ways in which we can drastically improve methods of industrialization so they will be less detrimental to human health and the health of the environment.

Hoover, E., Cook, K., Plan, R., Sanchez, K., Waghiyi,V., Miller, P., ...Capenter, D.O. (2012). Indigenous Peoples of North America:

Environmental Exposers and Reproductive Justice. Environmental Health Perspectives. doi:10.1289/ehp.1205422

The authors in this research paper are trying to discover, through the discussion with five native communities, the impact of environmental degradation on their reproductive health. The authors explain the various health impacts of uranium mining, which is the main environmental justice project WARN is fighting against. The researches explain briefly how the mining is able to impact native people in addition to how damaging reproductive health can be damaging to the future generations population numbers, but also to cultural knowledge of future native communities. The authors reveal that it is not just reproduction being affected, but also their way of life.

O'Sullivan, M. D. (2007). We worry about survival: American Indian women, sovereignty , and

the right to bear and raise children in the 1970s (Doctoral dissertation, Thesis/

Dissertation ETD). Project MUSE.

The author historically analysis the initiatives made by American Indian women during the 1970s and 1980s that helped to protect their people where white feminist movements during that time fell short to do. More specifically the author looks at a handful of American Indian female activist groups such as WARN and Red Power, to reveal the multilayered struggles these groups brought to the forefront of activism. And because the feminist movement during that time was primarily focused primarily on the liberation of privileged white women, these groups had to emerge to encourage people to focus on issues specific to them such as sterilization and reproductive health in relation to environmental justice.

Silliman, J.M., Fried, M.G., Ross, L., & Gutierrez, E. R. (2016). Undivided rights: women of color, organize for reproductive

justice. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.

This author outlines projects that WARN took place in and inactatives that WARN encouraged in an attempt to better the conditions of native women's reproductive health. They author reveals that community based actions that WARN developed in an attempt to redirect power from the oppressors. In addition to community based actions, the author explains the important impact Katsi Cook had on this organization.

Smith, A. (1991, Nov & dec.). For All Those Who Were Indian In A Former Life. Ms Magazine,

44-45.

The former president of WARN gives a speech addressing the cultural appropriation of white feminist on Native American spirituality. She brings to light the commercialization of Native American spirituality by white feminist, but also the continuous forms of colonization on Native American by white people to exploit and turn into a form of revenue. Smith also addresses the fact that white feminist want to be Native America to an extent, but when it comes to using their privilege to bring forth issues that Native American women face specifically, they are nowhere to be found. She reveals how damaging this is to the betterment of the conditions of Native Americans and how this New Age has completely erased the fact that Native American women are being oppressed by both the state and other activist groups in turn for economic gain.

Stein, R. (2004). New perspectives on environmental justice; gender, sexuality, and activism.

New Brunswick,New Jersey: Rutgers University.

This author's explains the reasons WARN emerged and why it is was important to examine issues faced by Native American women within America. Many Native American tribes were fighting continous colonization by the state, but in addition to that Native American women were fighting for their rights and the rights of their children to be healthy. They wanted to address the poor nutrition them and their children faced, forced sterilization based off of racist and sexist ideologies that the state can control their reproductive abilities and ill-equipped health facilities that revealed the devaluement of healthy native bodies within our society. WARN fought against uranium mining where they live raising awareness with the connection between uranium mining and reproductive issues specifically plaguing their community.

Ford, L. E. (2008). Encyclopedia of women and American politics. New York : Facts On File, c2008.

An encyclopedia entry on the history of WARN and their activities. It states some of their goals and aims, as well as actions taken in the past. The entry discusses the significance of WARN's role in the environmental justice movement. WARN was involved in research on the health effects of uranium mining in their community, and the impact which it had on their environment. 

Wishart, D. J. (Ed.). (n.d.). Women of All Red Nations. In ''Encyclopedia of the Great Plains''. Retrieved February 17, 2017, from http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.pd.059

Encyclopedia entry for Women of All Red Nations. It gives a short summary on when and how WARN was founded, and their involvement in social justice and health as well as environmental justice.  It discusses both the work WARN did on fighting the uranium mining in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and the health study they conducted on the water in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. It makes a brief mention of WARN's continued, present day activities as well, noting that they continue to take part in organizing activism both on and off reservations. 

Bellanger, P., Means, L., Howard, V., & Melroe, K. (1979). Interview: On the edge of extinction. Off Our Backs, 9(5), 8-9. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy- sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/25773070

Off Our Backs was run by a collective [decisions had to be agreed upon by all members]. Off Our Backs started in 1970 (just as carious Native American activist groups started to really gain momentum) and had quarterly publishing’s until 2008. In this article, an interview with three of the founding members of WARN describing the purpose and the goals of the organization.

Brook, D. (1998). Environmental Genocide: Native Americans and Toxic Waste. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 57(1), 105-113. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy- sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/3487423

This article was written in an intersectional journal and makes use of the term environmental justice multiple times throughout the article. Brook writes about historical and continuing acts of colonialism and genocide committed against Native American people primarily by the US government, as described in a report issued by WARN and compared to the testimonies of other Native American groups and individuals.

F.M. (1978). Let this be a WARNing. Off Our Backs, 8(11), 9-9. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/25772918

Off Our Backs was run by a collective [decisions had to be agreed upon by all members]. Off Our Backs started in 1970 (just as carious Native American activist groups started to really gain momentum) and had quarterly publishing’s until 2008. The article starts off with a quote calling for international solidarity between the Native people of all of the countries of North, Central, and South America. The article describes the activities of WARN during the Black Hills gathering. The article details the crimes the US government has committed against Native American people in the past and current acts of colonialism and malicious intent.

Gooding, S. (1996). At the Boundaries of Religious Identity: Native American Religions and American Legal Culture. Numen, 43(2), 157-183. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy- sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/3270345

The article is aimed at examining Native American religious practices and relevant US legal proceedings that have effected Native America religious practice. Gooding references a conversation with a member of WARN who describes the problems associated with the female contraceptive Norplant for Native American women taking part in ceremonies.

J.K. (1980). WARN links miscarriages to radiation. Off Our Backs, 10(6), 12-12. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/25793423

Off Our Backs was run by a collective [decisions had to be agreed upon by all members]. Off Our Backs started in 1970 (just as carious Native American activist groups started to really gain momentum) and had quarterly publishing’s until 2008. The article briefly details some of the noted health effects due to radiation at Pine Ridge reservation.

Johnson, S., & Hutchins, L. (1980). Black hills gathering: The ties that unite and divide us. Off Our Backs, 10(9), 4-23. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy- sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/25793516

Off Our Backs was run by a collective [decisions had to be agreed upon by all members]. Off Our Backs started in 1970 (just as carious Native American activist groups started to really gain momentum) and had quarterly publishing’s until 2008. Johnson and Hitchins describe the tensions felt between white people and Native Americans from the side of the Native Americans. The factor privilege is examined between the two groups, with white women fighting for equal pay, while reservations experience overwhelming levels of unemployment for decades. The article relies heavily on quotes.

Johnson, S. (1980). Women of all red nations. Off Our Backs, 10(7), 12-12. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/25793486

Off Our Backs was run by a collective [decisions had to be agreed upon by all members]. Off Our Backs started in 1970 (just as carious Native American activist groups started to really gain momentum) and had quarterly publishing’s until 2008. This article provide details about the various companies involved in the mining that took place at Pine River Reservation including free educational seminars that were held by individuals that represented the interests of the mining companies.

Lady, C. (1996). Chicken lady. Off Our Backs, 26(9), 23-23. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/20835620

The article title and author are both listed on J-Stor as ‘Chicken Lady.’ The excerpt lists an event that was sponsored in part by WARN. The event was in support of immigrants rights and focused on the intentionality of immigration and the environment.

Lawrence, J. (2000). The Indian Health Service and the Sterilization of Native American Women. American Indian Quarterly, 24(3), 400-419. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy- sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/1185911

This journal focuses on issues faced by Native American populations within the United States. In one paragraph a member of WARN is referenced describing how high levels of sterilization in a single tribe can reduce that tribes good standing with other tribes.

Ralstin-Lewis, D. Marie. (2005). The Continuing Struggle against Genocide: Indigenous Women's Reproductive Rights. Wíčazo Ša Review, 20(1), 71-95. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/4140251

This article was published in a journal specializing in Native American studies. The two themes of the issue that the article is featured in are colonization and decolonization. Rastlin-Lewis descRibes how WARN came to be differentiated from AIM. She further describes how issues of forced sterilization were among the core political issues pursued by WARN. Details are also given regarding some of the common methods of verbal coercion used in order to sterilize Native American women.

Rein, M. (1978). Women and global corporations – work, roles and resistance. Off Our Backs, 8(11), 2- 3. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/25772902

Off Our Backs was run by a collective [decisions had to be agreed upon by all members]. Off Our Backs started in 1970 (just as carious Native American activist groups started to really gain momentum) and had quarterly publishing’s until 2008. A WARN representative is quoted expressing the desire for the organization to span internationally and to link the struggles faced by women.

Smith, A. (2003). Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples. Hypatia, 18(2), 70-85. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/3811012

This article is published in a feminist philosophy journal. Native American issues was the theme of the issue that it was published in. Andrea Smith is one of the founders of WARN. She earned her PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California. Smith describes firsthand accounts of the inhumane and racist treatment of Native Americans at rallies, in emergency care, and during detainment.

Smith, A. (2005). Native American Feminism, Sovereignty, and Social Change. Feminist Studies, 31(1), 116-132. doi:10.2307/20459010

The article is written by Andrea Smith, one of the founding members of WARN. She earned her PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California. She talks about Native American issues with the idea of feminism versus colonialism. The article is rich in quotes from Native Americans within WARN and from other political organizations.

Smith, A. (1995). Women of Color and Reproductive Choice: Combating the Population Paradigm. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 11(2), 39-66. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/25002257

This article was written by Andy Smith [not to be confused with WARN member Andrea Smith], for a feminist journal about religious studies. Smith provides statistics of sterilization rates among Native American women. Smith also describes how many of the women were sterilized without their full consent in direct violation of guidelines set out by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the 1970s.

Stirling, R. (2015). Women of All Red Nations. Salem Press Encyclopedia.

This is an entry in Salem Press Encyclopedia that references three other encyclopedias in its sources. piece briefly describes the groups and lists areas that they have worked in, including foster care, and juvenile justice.

Tetzloff, L. (2009). Elizabeth Bender Cloud: "Working for and with Our Indian People" Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 30(3), 77-115. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy- sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/40388748

The article was written in a journal focusing on woman’s studies that did not generally emphasize the voice of Native Americans and consumed by non-Native American readers. Tetzloff describes stance taken by WARN leaders with regard to issues of sexism. According to the statement members of WARN are more oppressed as Native Americans than they are as women and the goal of WARN is to work directly to alleviate oppression against Native Americans, not to directly work to address issues of sexism.

Toman, M., Gerster, C., & Gerster, C. (1991). Powwow Highway in an Ethnic Film and Literature Course. Studies in American Indian Literatures, 3(3), 29-38. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.proxy-sm.researchport.umd.edu/stable/20736530

Toman, Gerster and Gerster briefly reference a study completed by WARN at the Pine Ridge reservation detailing the health effects of mining that was being carried out under the orders of the US government.