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Tekatsi’ tsiah:khwa Katsi Cook (Wolf Clan) works to show the impact of contaminants leaked by the General Motors factory.

1970s

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In the 1970's, Katsi Cook, a midwife from the Mohawk Nation, draws researchers' attention to toxins in the breast milk of Indigenous women. She works to show the impact of the contaminants leaked by the General Motors factory in the land of the Akwesasne (a Mohawk Nation territory also known as New York State) in breast milk as a reproductive injustice. Later she will found the Mother's Milk Project.