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06/15/2026

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In April 2016, a historian for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe opened her own land to people gathering to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, placing herself and her property at the center of a direct confrontation with an energy company, a state government, and federal regulators.

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard was 64 years old when she died in 2021. Before that, she was the woman who turned a private plot of ground into a national flashpoint. She was a tribal historian. She knew exactly what the land held.

The camp she founded grew to draw thousands of people from more than 300 nations. It became the largest gathering of Native American tribes in more than a century. The ground was not symbolic to Allard in the abstract: her ancestors were buried there, including a son whose grave sat on the ridge above the camp. Private security arrived with dogs. Militarized police followed. The pipeline company, backed by state and federal authority, pushed through. The federal government granted the final easement in 2017, and legal challenges ran for years after that. The fight Allard anchored became the most visible Indigenous-led environmental standoff in modern American history.

She did not wait for an institution to choose the site. She chose it herself, because it was hers, and because she knew what was buried in it.

She made the room hers.

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06/14/2026

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Please join us for a Wiping of the Tears Ceremony led by Richard “Chips” Moose Camp Junior on Friday, June 26, 2026, 5:00 PM at Cherokee Regional Park in Saint Paul, MN.

We are honored and excited to have Richard led us in this traditional healing ceremony and hope you can join us.

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06/13/2026

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: South Dakota tribes are uniting behind a proposal to return federal land, saying “the Black Hills are not for sale.” Get the details on the plan and what it could mean for the region at the link in the comments:

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