LaDonna Brave Bull Allard

Ladonna Brave Bull Allard
Born Ladonna Brave Bull Allard
Nationality Lakota
Occupation historian; activist
Known for Dakota Access Pipeline protests

Ladonna Brave Bull Allard is a Lakota historian and activist.[1] In April 2016, she founded the first resistance camp of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Sacred Stones, aimed at halting the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.[2][3][4]

Biography

Allard is an enrolled member of, and former historical preservation officer for, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.[5] Her people are Inhunktonwan from the Jamestown Valley, Hunkpapa and Blackfoot.[6]

While there are now multiple water protector camps at the Standing Rock, Sacred Stone, the first camp, is on Allard's private property.[7][8][9] Out of this grew the global Dakota Access Pipeline protests. By December 2016, more than 10,000 indigenous people and environmental activists were camping in the area.[10][11] This movement has become the largest intertribal alliance on the American continent in centuries, and possibly ever, with over 200 tribal nations represented.[12][13][14][15]

References

  1. ↑ "Meet the Brave, Audacious, Astonishing Women Who Built the Standing Rock Movement". Jezebel.
  2. ↑ "LaDonna Brave Bull Allard's land is home to water protectors at Standing Rock". CBC Radio.
  3. ↑ "Standing Rock protest: hundreds clash with police over Dakota Access Pipeline".
  4. ↑ "Dakota Excess Pipeline? Standing Rock Protectors Strip-Searched, Jailed for Days on Minor Charges". Democracy Now.
  5. ↑ Allard, LaDonna Brave Bull (2016-09-03). "Interview with LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian, on the 153rd anniversary of the Whitestone massacre". Democracy Now! (video). Interview with Amy Goodman. Event occurs at 42:26. Archived from the original on 2016-09-10. Retrieved 2016-09-11. (transcript)
  6. ↑ "Turtle Island Storyteller LaDonna Brave Bull Allard".
  7. ↑ "At The Sacred Stone Camp, Tribes And Activists Join Forces To Protect The Land". NPR. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "Why do we punish Dakota pipeline protesters but exonerate the Bundys?". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ "At Standing Rock, women lead fight in face of Mace, arrests and strip searches". The Guardian.
  10. ↑ Northcott, Charlie (2 December 2016). "Standing Rock: Are pipeline protest camp days numbered?". BBC. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  11. ↑ "Why they're staying: A win for Standing Rock, but not a victory". CNN. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  12. ↑ Northcott, Charlie (2 September 2016). "Life in the Native American oil protest camps". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  13. ↑ "A Native American fight to stop an oil pipeline is a "morally embarrassing reminder" of America’s founding". Quartz (06 September 2016).
  14. ↑ "September 2, 2016 Native Americans Hold Largest Convergence in a Century to Oppose Oil Pipeline". The Real News Network. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  15. ↑ "The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It's Also Centuries Old)". NPR. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
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