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Americans a safe, welcoming educational environment as well as employment for many of the community’s Indigenous members. Pat Bellanger worked as a Math and English teacher at the Red School House, which she founded with other AIM members, as an alternative education system designed to provide Native American children with tools for survival while learning about both cultures. Bellanger's activism also focused on women. In 1974, she founded the Women of All Red Nations, which was an advocacy organization for Indigenous women. One of the topics of her advocacy was a uranium mining company in the Dakotas that was causing infertility in Native women. Because the reservations were federal land, they did not have to follow state regulations. She called it genocide.
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Government was “snatching” children and paying white families to adopt them. This topic she knew too well from her own experience. The US Government tried to take her daughter, but she refused. In return, they forced her to sign a form that said she would never try to apply to the U.S. Bureau of Indian
Affairs for any benefits or assistance for her daughter. They forced her to sign away all her tribal rights. She continued speaking out about the abuse of power toward Indigenous people and in 1978, The US Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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Bellanger was born February 13, 1943, the daughter of Veronica Rice and William Ballenger. She was raised on the Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation in North Central Minnesota. In 1961, Bellanger moved to the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) to attend University of Minnesota.
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