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Brave Bull Allard received many accolades for her movement work. In 2017, she was featured Sierra Club's People Power List, represented the water protector movement to receive the DePaul
University Humanities Laureate Award and appear as finalists for the MIT Disobedience Award, and she received the
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Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and 300,000 acres of the Cheyenne River Reservation. Her family was among numerous Tribal communities along the Missouri River that were forced to relocate to new sites on the plains above the
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. During the construction of the pipeline, workers bulldozed burial grounds and other archeological sites identified by Brave Bull Allard and others working with the Standing Rock Tribal Historic Preservation Office. The movement at Standing Rock brought
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said, "Her courage was contagious and inspiring. She was very knowledgeable of the extensive history of the land and worked to preserve our history and sacred sites." South Dakota state
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was killed. She also helped oversee improvements to
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thousands of people together to form the largest intertribal alliance on the
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As a historian, she worked with many institutions to document Indigenous genealogy, narratives and culture. In 2009, she helped coordinate
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560:"Dakota Excess Pipeline? Standing Rock Protectors Strip-Searched, Jailed for Days on Minor Charges"
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She was also a descendant of Oyate Tawa, one of the 38 Dakota people hung in the
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794:"LaDonna Allard Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information"
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Zitkála-Šá: Trailblazing American Indian Composer and Writer
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154:Dakota Access Pipeline
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1144:on December 20, 2016
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777:. September 8, 2016.
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