Ladonna Brave Bull Allard is a Lakota historian, activist and Director of the Sacred Stone Camp.  In April 2016, she founded the first resistance camp of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, Sacred Stone, aimed at halting the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.  Allard is an enrolled member of, and former historical preservation officer for, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Her people are Inhunktonwan from the Jamestown Valley, Hunkpapa and Blackfoot.  While there were multiple water protector camps at the Standing Rock, Sacred Stone, the first camp, is on Allard's private property. 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.  This movement has become the largest intertribal alliance on the American continent in centuries, and possibly ever, with over 200 tribal nations represented.  The lecture will be followed by a Q & A.  Local campus and community organizations will be offering resources and information.

Sponsored by the Women’s Resources Center and Cosponsored by: Unit One Allen Hall, Native American House, Native American and Indigenous Student Organization (NAISO), and YWCA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Thanks to Laura Haber of Unit One/Allen Hall for this information item.

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