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April 12, 2021

Standing Rock Sioux Historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Who Led Fight Against Pipeline, Dies at 64
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In North Dakota, Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian La Donna Brave
Bull Allard has died of brain cancer at the age of 64. Allard co-founded
the Sacred Stone Camp on her own land in April 2016 to resist the Dakota
Access pipeline. People from around the world traveled to the Standing
Rock Reservation in what became one of the largest gatherings of
Indigenous peoples in a century. In September of 2016, Democracy Now!
spoke to Allard at the Sacred Stone Camp, just hours before the Dakota
Access pipeline company unleashed dogs and pepper spray on Native land
and water defenders seeking to protect a sacred tribal burial site from
destruction.

La Donna Brave Bull Allard: "We say mni wiconi, water of life. Every
time we drink water, we say mni wiconi, water of life. We cannot live
without water. So I don't understand why America doesn't understand how
important water is. So we have no choice. We have to stand. No matter
what happens, we have to stand to save the water."



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