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Int'l grandmothers' enviro movement (AP)

July 31, 2007

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Sisters Rita and Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance take part in a prayer ceremony Wednesday, June 13, 2007, at Hot Springs, S.D. They are from the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and also members of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. The women come from Africa, Asia and the Americas. Their languages, cultures and traditions are as different as their lands. (AP Photo/Carson Walker)AP - Several times a day over three days, 13 women from around the world, several in their 80s, gathered around an open fire as each led a prayer ceremony unique to her native tribe.