{"id":262,"date":"2017-03-19T16:12:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T16:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/2017\/03\/19\/beal-copy-copy\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:29:42","slug":"cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/2017\/03\/19\/cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Katsi Cook, midwife, environmentalist, indigenous rights activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Katsi Cook<\/strong>\u00a0talks about the origins of the\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mothers&#8217; Milk Project in 1983 to monitor the environmental impact of industrial development and the resulting <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PCB contamination of the water in the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Akwesasne community on the St. Regis Reservation along the St. Lawrence River. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cook was interviewed for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smith.edu\/libraries\/libs\/ssc\/vof\/vof-intro.html\">Voices of Feminism Oral History Project<\/a>. Her <a href=\"http:\/\/asteria.fivecolleges.edu\/findaids\/sophiasmith\/mnsss432_main.html\">papers are also in the SSC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B7otztB0Zxu4eENQX1lCdDBTUGM\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-347 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/03\/katsi8-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/03\/katsi8-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/03\/katsi8.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0B7otztB0Zxu4eENQX1lCdDBTUGM\" target=\"_blank\">View clip<\/a>\u00a0(04:38)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.smith.edu\/departments\/ssc\/vof\/cook_playlist.html\" target=\"_blank\">View full video<\/a>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smith.edu\/libraries\/libs\/ssc\/images\/icons\/lockblue.gif\" alt=\"on-campus access only\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Full video is available on Smith campus only)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katsi Cook\u00a0talks about the origins of the\u00a0Mothers&#8217; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/2017\/03\/19\/cook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[26,27,31],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-an-activist","tag-environmentalists","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-voices-of-feminism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/activists-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}