Biography
An enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Chippewa, Cloud‑Morgan combined Native community advocacy with faith-rooted peace activism. He joined the 1984 “Silo Pruning Hooks” protest at a Missouri Minuteman II missile silo, where the group’s symbolic disarmament action was framed as nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons.
Cloud‑Morgan was arrested at the silo and convicted alongside the other three resisters, receiving an eight‑year federal prison sentence. Beyond anti-nuclear work, he also became known for activism connected to the White Earth Reservation, including community protests aimed at reform and accountability in tribal governance and demonstrations around treaty-related issues. Larry Cloud Morgan was an Anishinaabe Catholic peace activist from Minnesota. On November 12, 1984 he joined Carl Kabat, Paul Kabat, and Helen Woodson in the Silo Pruning Hooks action at a Minuteman II missile silo near Knob Noster, Missouri. He was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison; he served until 1989. He died on May 22, 1999.
Native American (Ojibwe) peace activist; one of the Silo Pruning Hooks who on Nov. 12, 1984 damaged a Minuteman II silo lid near Knob Noster, MO, leaving a Biblical and Native American indictment.
