Lorelei DeCora

Lorelei **DeCora** Means (née DeCora; an haife ta a shekara ta 1954) 'yar asalin ƙasar Amirka ce kuma Mai fafutukar kare hakkin bil'adama. An fi saninta da rawar da ta taka a karo na biyu a garin Wounded Knee, Dakota ta Kudu, a Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . Ta kuma kasance co-kafa kungiyar Indiyawan Amurka, Women of All Red Nations .

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Lorelei DeCora akan Rijiyar Winnebago a jihar Nebraska .  Ita 'yar kabilar Winnebago ce mai rajista (a cikin Thunder Bird Clan) kuma zuriyar Minnecojou Lakota Sioux ta hanyar mahaifiyarta.  Babbar kakarta ta kasance wacce ta tsira daga Kisan Knee da aka Raunata a Jikin Knee da aka Raunata.

## Rayuwa ta mutum
A shekara ta 1981, Lorelei ta sami digiri na biyu a fannin jinya daga Jami'ar Dakota ta Kudu da kuma digiri na farko a fannin aikin jinya daga jami'ar Jihar Dakota ta Kudancin a shekara ta 1986.  Lorelei kuma za ta sami 'ya'ya mata uku kafin ta saki mijinta, Theodore "Ted" Means . 

## Yunkurin fafutuka
Lorelei ta shiga cikin Red Power Movement tun tana ƙarama a rayuwarta. Lorelei ta yi rajista a makarantar sakandare ta Katolika a Winnebago Reservation a Nebraska, inda ta yi tsayayya da kokarin da jami'an makarantar suka yi don yanke alakarta da al'adun Indiyawan Amurka. A makarantar sakandare, iyalinta sun nuna rashin amincewa da wani littafi na tarihi, mai taken Hawkeye Tales, wanda jami'an makarantar jama'a na Sioux City ke amfani da shi don ilimantar da yara duk da yadda yake nuna rashin jin daɗi da wariyar launin fata na Indiyawan Amurka. zanga-zangarsu ta haifar da cire littafin daga tsarin karatun a cikin tsarin makarantar jama'a na Iowa.

### Ƙungiyar Indiyawan Amurka
Har ila yau, a lokacin makarantar sakandare ne Lorelei DeCora ya zama ɗaya daga cikin ƙananan membobin kwamitin daraktoci na AIM.

### Lamarin da ya faru a gwiwa
Lorelei ya kuma shiga cikin aikin Indiyawan Amurka na Wounded Knee . Ta kasance memba na Pie Patrol, ƙungiyar mata masu aiki a cikin AIM, wanda ya ƙunshi kanta, Thelma Rios, da Theda Nelson Clarke .  Mary Crow Dog (née Brave Bird), matar Mai fafutukar kare hakkin bil'adama Leonard Crow Dog, wanda kuma ya shiga cikin kewaye a Wounded Knee, ya kira mambobin Pie Patrol a matsayin "mata masu magana da baki, kafofin watsa labarai da ke sane da kuma rungumar haske, wadanda ke son kyamara kuma sun dauki yabo ga abin da matan AIM ke yi a bayan fage. Wannan rukuni na mata sun nuna ƙiyayya ga wani mutum mai suna Anna Mae Pictou Aquash .  Anna Mae, wata mace MikMaq daga Nova Scotia, tana da alaƙa da Dennis Banks, wanda ya kafa Ƙungiyar Indiyawan Amurka yayin da yake cikin auren doka da Darlene "Kamook" Nichols. Al'amarin bai zauna da kyau tare da mata na ƙungiyoyi daban-daban a cikin motsi ba, kuma waɗannan mata (kazalika da Pie Patrol) suna kallon dangantakar a matsayin barazana ga kwanciyar hankali na AIM. Shaidu da yawa sun sanya Lorelei a cikin asibitin kiwon lafiya guda daya da AIM ke sarrafawa a lokacin Siege na Wounded Knee na karni na 20 lokacin da aka kawo Ray Robinson cikin asibitar. Wani labarin ya ba da cikakken bayani game da yadda aka harbe Robinson a gwiwa, aka ja shi waje, aka doke shi kuma aka kai shi asibitin likitancin Wounded Knee wanda Lorelei Decora Means da Madonna Thunder Hawk ke gudanarwa, da kuma wasu ma'aikatan jinya da likitoci da yawa. An ruwaito cewa an tura Ray cikin wani kabari, inda ya mutu daga zubar da jini.

Lorelei ya kasance a lokacin tambayoyin Annie Mae, inda Madonna Thunder Hawk ta bula Annie Mae a kusa.

### Bayan da aka yi wa rauni a gwiwa
A shekara ta 1974,  Lorelei da Madonna sun kasance masu haɗin gwiwar kungiyar Mata ta All Red Nations.  An kirkiro kungiyar ne a matsayin mafita ga rashin jagorancin da ya fito bayan abin da ya faru na Wounded Knee. Mata na Dukkanin Red Nations sun magance matsalolin zamantakewa da tattalin arziki Indiyawa na Amurka da ke zaune a wurin ajiyar da aka magance su, kamar rashin abinci mai gina jiki, rashin isasshen kiwon lafiya da rashin isassu, shirye-shiryen tilastawa, da tashin hankali na cikin gida don mayar da martani ga tarin abubuwan da ke tattare da zamantakewar jama'a, gami da talauci, rashin aiki, shan miyagun ƙwayoyi da rashin lafiyar hankali.

A shekara ta 1974,  Lorelei De Cora, tare da Madonna, sun kafa kuma sun kafa, 'Za mu tuna da Makarantar Tsaro', wani wuri inda matasan Indiyawan Amurka waɗanda iyayensu ke fuskantar tuhumar tarayya ko waɗanda suka fice daga tsarin ilimin sakandare.  Musamman, an kafa makarantar ne ga 'ya'yan mahalarta wadanda ake tuhuma a cikin gwajin Wounded Knee wanda ya biyo bayan aikin Indiyawan Amurka na Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Wannan madadin samfurin wani bangare ne na Ƙungiyar Ƙungiyar Ƙasa ta Makarantun Tsaro da aka kafa a lokacin motsi.

A cikin 1979,  Lorelei ya kasance mai haɗin gwiwa kuma mai tsarawa wanda ya taimaka wajen kafa Black Hills Alliance. Ƙungiyar Black Hills Alliance ce ke da alhakin hana kamfanin Union Carbide daga haƙar uranium a filin Lakota mai tsarki.  Thunder Hawk ya yi yaƙi don adana ƙasa a cikin tsattsarkan Black Hills daga masu haɓakawa da ke son lalata yankin, kuma sun gudanar da bincike kan samar da ruwa a kan Rijiyar Indiya ta Pine Ridge, yana tabbatar da cewa akwai haɗarin haɗari mai yawa na radiation a cikin ruwa. Sakamakon gwagwarmayar da ta yi shi ne aiwatar da sabon tsarin ruwa.  An kuma kafa Ƙungiyar Black Hills don yin zanga-zangar adawa da hakar uranium a yankin da kuma ilmantar da al'umma game da haɗari, haɗari da sakamakon ci gaban ma'adinai. 

A matsayinta na ma'aikaciyar jinya, Lorelei ta ci gaba da fadada yunkurin ta a cikin yankin al'amuran gwagwarmayar Indiya. A sakamakon haka, ta kafa kungiyar AIDS Resource Team, wacce ta yi aiki a matsayin kawai shirin ilimin Cutar kanjamau a jihar Dakota ta Kudu a lokacin da aka kafa ta, wanda aka tsara don samar da wayar da kan jama'a da fahimtar cutar kanjamawa. Ta kuma taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen kafa Majalisar Yarjejeniyar Indiya ta Duniya, kungiya mai zaman kanta wacce ke aiki ta hanyar Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, kuma tana aiki a matsayin dandalin ga 'yan asalin ƙasar a duk faɗin duniya. Lorelei kuma wani bangare ne na kayan aiki a cikin kafawa da ci gaban gidan rediyo na Indiya na farko kuma mai zaman kansa (KILI Radio, Porcupine, S.D.). 

A cikin 1987, Lorelei ya ɗauki aikin cikakken lokaci a matsayin Ma'aikaciyar jinya mai Rijista tare da Asibitin Sabis na Lafiya na Indiya da ke Rosebud, South Dakota.  Ko da yake ta ci gaba da ba da lokaci zuwa asibitin Porcupine a matsayin mai ba da shawara na gudanarwa, ta sami wani dalilin da ya sa ya zama zakara lokacin aiki tare da marasa lafiya a asibiti a Rosebud. A nan ne ta ci karo da ɗimbin majinyata waɗanda ake yi wa jinyar matsalolin da ke da alaƙa da ciwon sukari .  Lorelei ita ce mai kirkire-kirkire da ke da alhakin tunanin da'irorin Magana na Ciwon sukari. Ta sami damar ƙaddamar da shirin tare da haɗin gwiwar Seva Foundation a cikin 1996. Hanyar da aka yi amfani da ita wani nau'i ne na horo na musamman wanda ke taimaka wa 'yan asalin ƙasar haɓaka tsarin dabarun sarrafa kansu don rigakafin ciwon sukari da jiyya yayin da suke lura da mahimmancin imani na ruhaniya da na addini na asali, ban da amfani da tushe a matsayin kayan aikin ilimi.  Lorelei a halin yanzu yana aiki a matsayin Daraktan Ayyuka na duka biyun, Gidauniyar Seva - Cibiyar Ciwon Ciwon Ciwon Asalin Amirka da Lafiyar Ciwon Ciwon sukari: Aikin Da'irar Magana na Indiyawan Amirka.  Lorelei yana hidima akan Shirin Ilimin Ciwon Ciwon sukari na ƙasa - NDEP, Ƙungiyar Ayyukan Indiyawan Amurka. &#x5B;&#x5D;

Lorelei ya kuma gudanar da bude asibitin farko na al'umma da ke aiki a wani yanki na kabilanci a Amurka. A cikin 1980, wani taron al'umma ya yi wa Lorelei wahayi don buɗe asibiti don inganta biyan bukatun mazauna da ke zaune a yankin, wanda Gidauniyar SEVA ta fara tallafawa. Tsakanin 1989-1991, an bude asibitin Porcupine ne kawai a kan wani lokaci. Koyaya, a cikin shekara ta 1992, ta sami takardar shaidar jihar a matsayin asibitin kiwon lafiya na ƙauyuka, kuma ta sami damar samar da sabis na kiwon lafiya mai yawa, gami da rigakafi da kulawa ta farko, kulawa ta haihuwa, rigakafi, da ilimin kiwon lafiya, ga Indiyawan Amurka da waɗanda ba 'yan asalin Amurka ba.  A yau, asibitin Porcupine shine kawai asibitin da ke da 'yanci, ba riba ba, wanda ke aiki a yankunan karkara a Kasar Indiya.

## Kyaututtuka
Lorelei ta kasance mai karɓar lambar yabo ta Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Award a shekara ta 1993,  mai karɓar kyautar William Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice Award a shekara.

## Kyauta
Lorelei kuma an ambaci shi a cikin wallafe-wallafe da yawa, ciki har da *Ghost Dancing the Law: The Weunded Knee Trials*, marubucin John William Sayer, *The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia*, edited by Andrew RL Cayton, Richard Sisson, Chris Zacher, Jihar *Ƙasar* *Amirka: Kisa, Colonization, and Resistance*, Edited by American. *<nowiki/>'Yanci*, Edited by Alvin M. Josephy, Joane Nagel, Troy R. Johnson, *Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks da Rise of the American Indian Movement*, Dennis Banks da Richard Erdoes suka rubuta, da *Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History*, marubucin Nancy C. Unger.

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