Biography
Winona LaDuke is an Ojibwe economist, environmentalist, and writer from the White Earth Nation, a co-founder of Honor the Earth, and twice the Green Party's U.S. vice-presidential nominee. She has led Indigenous land- and treaty-rights and anti-pipeline campaigns for decades, including the Standing Rock resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline and opposition to Enbridge's Line 3. In July 2021 she was arrested and jailed for three days for civil disobedience at a Line 3 worksite in Minnesota; the charges were dismissed in 2023.
Darren Thompson’s July 22, 2021 report identifies an earlier January 9, 2021 Line 3 protest arrest in Aitkin County and release on bail conditions. It distinguishes the later July 19 Wadena County arrest from LaDuke’s continued overnight detention in Aitkin County over those conditions. At a July 22 violation hearing before Judge David F. Hermerding, with attorney Frank Bibeau, an amended release order barred entry to Enbridge work zones while allowing lawful protest elsewhere. The existing July 19–22 custody record is preserved; no separate transfer interval is added. Source.
