Roske-Martinez, youth director for Earth Guardians, and many Indigenous youth are working to stop their lands from being further being exploited such as the Rezpect Our Water Campaign against the Dakota Pipeline.
An excerpt from the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Articles 21, 22(1), 23 & 24, which covers the rights of Native Youth to sexual and reproductive health and education, and rights and justice in the United States and Canada.
Article describing the potential effects of fracking the the very young. They cite a study conducted by researchers from Princeton, Columbia and MIT as they sought to better understand the ramifications of fracking -long said to be safe by proponents.