activist

A trailblazing journalist, political activist, and public intellectual, she helped lead a movement that revolutionized both the professional and personal lives of women across the country.

And while strides have been made in recent years, largely as a result of dedicated Indigenous activists, there’s still a long way to go.

Population ecologists - along with other scientists, conservationists, and activists - began to study the birds closely, hoping to figure out what was causing this change in population numbers, and how they might reverse it.

Thanks in part to pressure from Indigenous activists like these, the law slowly began to change, starting with the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966, and the Archaeological Resources and Protection Act in 1979.