LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard is a Native American Lakota historian and activist. In April 2016, she was one of the founders of the resistance camps of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, aimed at halting the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.Biography
Brave Bull Allard is an enrolled member of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and former historical preservation Section 106 Coordinator for, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Her people are Inhunktonwan from Cannon Ball, Hunkpapa and Lakota Blackfoot.
Over the course of the direct actions against the Dakota Access Pipeline, there were several camps. The camp run by Allard was called Sacred Stone Camp. They protested DAPL’s construction because a portion of the pipeline runs beneath South Dakota’s Lake Oahe. The reservoir is a source of drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
This movement has become the largest intertribal alliance on the American continent in centuries, with more than 200 tribal nations represented.
After years of resistance and protest the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Indigenous organizers scored a legal victory on 6. June 2020 when a federal judge ordered pipeline owner consortium Dakota Access LLC, controlled by Energy Transfer Partners, to stop operations and empty its pipelines of all oil pending an environmental review that could take a year. The court said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated national environmental law when it granted an easement to Energy Transfer to build and operate beneath Lake Oahe because the it failed to produce an adequate Environmental Impact Statement.
