LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard | |
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| Born | LaDonna Brave Bull June 8, 1956 Fort Yates, North Dakota, United States |
| Died | April 10, 2021 (aged 64) Fort Yates, North Dakota, United States |
| Other names | Tamakawastewin |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, activist |
| Known for | Dakota Access Pipeline protests |
| Spouse | Miles Dennis Allard (died 2018) |
| Children | 1, 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.