Nancy Beaulieu

Released
Gender:Female
Race:Native American
Era:2020s
State:Minnesota
Support
Indigenous Sovereignty Environmental Activism
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Biography

Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) water protector and organizer charged with criminal trespass for the eight-day Fire Light ceremonial camp at the Mississippi River headwaters in June 2021, opposing Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands pipeline. White Earth Tribal Court dismissed her case in 2022, ruling the action was a lawful exercise of sovereign Indigenous treaty rights.

Case

White Earth Tribal Court
Charges: Criminal trespass (Fire Light Camp, Line 3 resistance, June 2021)
Sentence: Verdict as recorded: No — dismissed 2022 on Indigenous sovereignty grounds
Convicted: No — charges dismissed
Institution State: Minnesota

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