She was a member of the Pie Patrol, a group of women active in AIM, consisting of herself, Thelma Rios, and Theda Nelson Clarke.
[4] Mary Crow Dog (née Brave Bird), wife of civil rights activist Leonard Crow Dog, who also participated in the siege at Wounded Knee, referred to the members of the Pie Patrol as "loud-mouth city women, media conscious and hugging the limelight," who loved the camera and took credit for what the women of AIM were doing behind the scenes.
[7] Anna Mae, a MikMaq woman from Nova Scotia, was having an affair with Dennis Banks, founder of the American Indian Movement while he was still involved in a common-law marriage with Darlene "Kamook" Nichols.
The Women of All Red Nations addressed devastating socioeconomic problems American Indians living on the reservation dealt with, such as a poor state of nutrition, insufficient and inadequate healthcare, compulsory sterilization programs, and domestic violence in response to a constellation of poor social determinants, including poverty, lack of employment, substance abuse and mental health illness.
[12] In 1974,[13] Lorelei De Cora, along with Madonna, founded and established, the 'We Will Remember Survival School,' a place where American Indian youth whose parents were facing federal charges or who had dropped out of the secondary education system.
[5] The Black Hills Alliance was also founded to rally against the mining of uranium in the region and to educate communities about the risks, dangers and consequences of mineral development.
[6] In 1987, Lorelei took a full-time job as a Registered Nurse with the Indian Health Service hospital located in Rosebud, South Dakota.
[6] Although she continued to devote time to the Porcupine Clinic in the capacity of an administrative consultant, she found yet another cause to champion when working with patients at the hospital in Rosebud.
[citation needed] Lorelei also managed to spearhead the opening of the first community-owned and operated clinic on a tribal reservation in the United States.
In 1980, a community meeting inspired Lorelei to open a clinic to better serve the needs of residents living in the region, which was first funded by the SEVA Foundation.