LaDonna Brave Bull Allard

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
Born
LaDonna Brave Bull

(1956-06-08)June 8, 1956
DiedApril 10, 2021(2021-04-10) (aged 64)
Fort Yates, North Dakota, United States
Other namesTamakawastewin
Occupation(s)Historian, activist
Known forDakota Access Pipeline protests
SpouseMiles Dennis Allard (died 2018)
Children1, Philip Levon Hurkes (died 2009)

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard (June 8, 1956  April 10, 2021), known as Tamakawastewin ("Good Earth Woman"), was a Native American Dakota and Lakota historian, genealogist, and a matriarch of the water protector movement.

In April 2016, she became 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.