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Article Evaluation

Notes from the training "Evaluating Articles and Sources": - Always cite sources! - Paraphrase, don't copy! - Use reliable sources: independent sources (not related), neutrality or not biased, fact checked, reliable publishers, contain minority point of view too

Practice: - Be bold - Be bold - Be bold

Sara de Sancto Aegidio I have the article on Sara de Sancto Aegidio. There is not much information on her; however, I can write a little more about her heritage and what that meant for her as a doctor. Here is a bibliography of sources: id=ykWQGAJ4_HkC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=Sara+de+Sancto+Aegidio&source=bl&ots=O5wStEudB_&sig=nKjpkw5aHNsbw7rvVWKiLA5ez9w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis9bqH1t_WAhVrjVQKHbDhBNwQ6AEIQjAE#v=onepage&q=Sara%20de%20Sancto%20Aegidio&f=false https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/doctors-medieval Worldshope101 (talk) 23:58, 7 October 2017 (UTC)worldshope101

There is not a lot of information on Sara de Sancto Aegidio, so I changed to Sue (Susan) Iversen. She was born in 1940, and was a professor at Harvard in Psychology. However, she was also elected to positions dealing with the neurosciences, including pharmacy. There is no article under the name Sue Iversen. I believe that she is the same person as Susan Iversen, whom there is a tiny bit of an article written on her. I will fill out and add to this article. Here are some websites I have found: https://acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-susan-iversen https://neurotree.org/beta/peopleinfo.php?pid=594 https://www.sevenoaksschool.org/about-us/governors/professor-sue-iversen/ I will also look for more sources.

Susan Iversen has had several scientific articles published or co-published under her name Susan Iversen or SD Iversen. Many of these articles include topics on the brain or neuroscience. http://apps.webofknowledge.com/DaisyOneClickSearch.do?product=WOS&search_mode=DaisyOneClickSearch&colName=WOS&SID=7DTAdXLSYgC6vj3w2Sh&author_name=Iversen,%20SD&dais_id=16358836&excludeEventConfig=ExcludeIfFromFullRecPage She has also been an author and co-author of several books...

Alright, final change to Annie Aghnaqa (Akeya) Alowa. She is an Alaskan environmentalist and advocate for health improvements. This whole article (word for word) can be found online here: https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Annie%20Aghnaqa%20(Akeya)%20Alowa&item_type=topic&sr=50 So something will need to be changed in that. Otherwise, there are sources listed on the page that information that can be added to the article. Also, I found two additional sources: https://search.proquest.com/docview/215533119?rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo and https://search.proquest.com/docview/367408339?rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo.

Introduction Annie Aghnaqa (Akeya) Alowa (née Akeya; also known as, Aghnaqa (Annie Akeya Alowa) and Annie Alowa; 25 June 1924 - 19 February 1999) was a Yup’ik elder and Alaskan environmental activist, healer, and leader in health and justice advocacy for indigenous peoples, inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2016.[1][2] "This [military contamination] is a clear case of trespass... We know what is going on here. We are not a bunch of dumb Eskimos."[3] "I will fight until I melt."[1] (A. Alowa)

Family Life Annie Akeya was born in 1924[4]. She was both born and raised in the Yup’ik village of Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island, a village forty miles from Russia on the northern Bering Sea. She is the daughter of Horst and Olga Akeya. Her parents had eight other children - Agatha Mokiyuk (née Akeya), Barbara Kogassagoon (née Akeya), Helen Kiyukhook (née Akeya), Lila Akeya, Sarah Tate (née Akeya), Alexander Akeya, Calvin Akeya and David Akeya - with a total of 6 daughters and 3 sons, including Alowa.[1] In 1944, Alowa married Jackson. Her husband died the following year. In 1945, Annie remarried. Her husband was Nelson Alowa. Together they had eight children- Christina, Jeannette, Julius, Richard, Roland, Rose, Sheldon and Timothy. Pastimes and Education Alowa, Nelson, and their children spent their summers in Tamniq, a camp where the family hunted and trapped. Alowa developed renowned skills as a traditional skin sewer and doll making artist. She enjoyed sewing and picking berries for a pastime. She also was an advocate for education. Alowa’s children always had to take their school work to Tamniq, where she taught them as they continued their education. Alowa also continued her own education. From 1955 to 1956, Alowa was trained by healer Harriet Penayah, also from Savoonga, in midwifery. Her first training at a hospital was in Kotzebue.

Later Life A U.S. military Air Force base was started in 1952 on St Lawrence Island at Northeast Cape. From 1963 to 1970, Alowa was employed by the Air Force. She also volunteered as a health aide during this time, receiving no payment or benefits. In her career, she was a health aid, both as a traditional healer and as a Village Health Aide, for 13 years. In 1971, her medical training continued with the Norton Sound Health Corporation in Nome. It was here that she was trained as a health aide in the Community Health Aide Program (CHAP). Before telephone services reached St. Lawrence Island, health aides and village healers worked on their own knowledge and training as midwives and first responders, including tuberculosis and injuries. Later, however with telephone service installed, support was available through communication with physicians in Nome. In 1972, the U.S. military left their base in Northeast Cape. When they left, they left much waste and toxins. Over the next three decades, Alowa noticed the health problems which she suspected were associated the hazardous material wastes from the military base. Cancer occurred in several people for the first time, as well as increases in miscarriages and low-birth weight infants. There was also an increase in reindeer and other animal deaths. Alowa continually sought government assistance and hearings to advocate for cleanup of the base on the island, but with no success until 1997 when she met Pamela Miller. Alowa and Miller worked together until Alowa’s death two years later. In 1997 they were sent by Greenpeace to investigate the site and get photographic evidence and environmental samples. Miller founded the Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) in 1998, which enable them to meet with Colonel Sheldon Jahn of the Army Corps of Engineers in Alaska to ask for him to clean up the site. However, he was defensive and dismissed Alowa. She kept raising awareness to the issue and raised Northeast Cape to the top of the prioritized cleanup list and by 2016 the Corps had spent $123 million on cleanup. Alowa did several interviews and made trips to Anchorage to advocate for environmental justice in Northeastern Cape, including a conference in December 1998 with Alaska’s Women Environmental Network (AWEN).

Achievements Alowa died of liver cancer, that may have been caused from the hunting and fishing in the area effected by the military bases toxins in Northeast Cape. She had also had breast cancer. She died on 19 February 1999, but she kept fighting for her community until her end. In the spring of that year, filmmaker Jean Riordan created a documentary of Alowa's interviews named with her quote, "I Will Fight Until I Melt (whanga pillugaghlleqaqa kenlanga ughullemnun)". It includes "footage of the island, its people, and the Northeast Cape dumping ground".[5] Alowa was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2016 due to her large involvement of the environmental and health care in St. Lawrence Island. She advocated for 20+ years for the cleanup of the waste site, and $123 million was spent on cleanup so far. [1] Many people, including those too young to have known her, are encouraged by her work and continue to strive for justice and human rights, remember all the work Annie Alowa did. Although she was soft-spoken, she was persistent and eloquent and had a purpose. She, with her spiritual faith, has left a legacy and will continue to impact people from her community.