Biography
Debra White Plume was an Oglala Lakota activist and water protector from the Pine Ridge Reservation. She joined the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation and later founded Owe Aku, an organization devoted to Lakota culture, treaty rights and environmental protection. On September 2, 2011, National Park Service officers arrested her outside the White House during an Indigenous-led protest against the Keystone XL pipeline. She was taken to the city jail, booked and released later that day.
