Nancy Beaulieu 
MN350, RISE Coalition 

Nancy is an enrolled member of the Leech Lake reservation and lives just east of Bemidji. She currently serves as the Northern Minnesota Organizer at MN350 where she helped found the Resilient Indigenous Sisters Engaging (RISE) Coalition. RISE works to protect land and water, treaties, and the rights of Native people.

Sasha Beaulieu 
Red Lake Treaty Camp 

Sasha Beaulieu is Anishinaabe from Red Lake, Minnesota. She founded Red Lake Treaty Camp in the effort to stop Line 3 from being constructed on her homelands and is actively engaging in community outreach and education of local people on this issue. 

Dawn Goodwin 
Fire Light Camp, Indigenous Environmental Network, RISE Coalition  

Dawn Goodwin is a member of the White Earth Tribe and co-founder of the RISE Coalition. She is also a member of the Indigenous Environmental Network, an environmental justice organization focused on Indigenous communities, their water, land, and sacred spaces. She also co-founded the Fire Light treaty camp.  

Tara Houska 
Giniw Collective 

Tara Houska is Anishinaabe of Couchiching First Nation, a tribal attorney, a land defender, a Mide, a sundancer and a former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders. She advocates on behalf of tribal nations at the local and federal levels on a range of issues impacting Indigenous peoples. She is a co-founder of Not Your Mascots, a nonprofit committed to educating the public about the harms of stereotyping and promoting positive representation of Native Americans in the public sphere. Tara is also the founder of the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous-women, two-spirit led frontline resistance to protect Mother Earth, defend the sacred and live in balance. 

Winona LaDuke 
Honor the Earth 

Winona LaDuke is a rural development economist and author working on issues of Indigenous economics and policies around food and energy. She currently serves as the executive director of Honor the Earth. Winona co-founded Honor the Earth with the Indigo Girls as a platform to raise awareness of and money for Indigenous struggles for environmental justice. She is known as a leader on the issues of cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, and sustainable food systems. Winona also works to protect Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. 

Taysha Martineau  
Camp Migizi 

Taysha is a two-spirit Indigenous organizer from the Fond du Lac tribe and co-founder of Camp Migizi and Gichigumi Scouts. She founded Camp Migizi on a piece of land (part of the Fond du Lac reservation) that she helped purchase immediately next to one of the Enbridge Line 3 worksites. She and other Water Protectors staged direct actions from the camp and worked to learn traditional Ojibwe ways there.