The former Enbridge-occupied building in Park Rapids, Minn., where activists once protested the Line 3 pipeline, has been transformed into Giiwedinong, an independent museum highlighting Indigenous perspectives on treaty rights and environmental justice.
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FORT YATES, North Dakota, April 20, 2021 (ENS) – LaDonna Tamakawastewin (Good Earth Woman) Brave Bull Allard (1956-2021), Native American Dakota and Lakota historian, genealogist, and a matriarch of the water protector movement, has passed away.
Allard died on April 10 at her home in Fort Yates, after a battle with brain cancer. She was 64. Her family announced her death online.
LaDonna Allard made her family’s land a base for protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline; thousands gathered to fight the pipeline. (Photo courtesy Lakota People’s Law Project)
A member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Allard became widely known for her opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, from early 2016 when construction of Energy Transfer Partners’ 1,172-mile-long underground oil pipeline across the northern United States was approved by the Obama administration.